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To: zonder who wrote (52592)	10/17/2002 7:09:18 AM
From: D. Long	Respond to of 281500

So the lawyer is correcting you on the following: 1) That Taleban was recognized by some countries (and you agree now) "Some" does not make "recognized". Being recognized by the United Nations and the majority of the nations of the world constitutes recognition. The Taliban were not recognized by the United Nations, by the United States, by any nation but three, and they were pretty damn quick to withdraw that recognition. I stand by my correction of your friend. 2) That Northern Alliance represented the internationally recognized government of Afghanistan. The NA were nobodies until the conflict with the US started, and their leader was Masood (assassinated shortly before 9/11), a post later inherited by Rabbani. That is an absolutely false statement, in every sense. I stated, as follows: exiled government, represented in the Northern Alliance and headed by Rabbani, was the internationally recognized government of Afghanistan. Perhaps the emphasis, and reading the links I posted to you, will make that clearer. The EXILED GOVERNMENT, headed BY RABBANI, and which was REPRESENTED IN THE NORTHERN ALLIANCE, was the recognized government of Afghanistan. Your assertion that the NA were nobodies and that Rabbani took power AFTER Masood is patently false, again. The Northern Alliance was a collection of the Mujahadeen factions which had fought the Soviets and which banded together in the face of a common enemy - the Taliban. Rabbani was the President of the recognized government of Afghanistan. Masood was the military leader of the NA, but he was not the Head of State, ever, of the Afghan government. I suggest you read the Chronicle link I posted to you, it has a nice summary of the history involved. As to the Geneva Convention, yes I have read it. I can't say I'm a lawyer or that I am intimately familiar with its details. But I read plenty of articles when all that was going to have arrived at my conclusions. I can dig up some links by Yale and Columbia law professors I saved if you like... Derek