AFGHANISTAN: Taliban Regime Pressed bin Laden on anti-U.S. Terror

[kpete]

Source: IPS

AFGHANISTAN: Taliban Regime Pressed bin Laden on anti-U.S. Terror
By Gareth Porter*

WASHINGTON, Feb 11, 2010 (IPS) - Evidence now available from various sources, including recently declassified U.S. State Department documents, shows that the Taliban regime led by Mullah Mohammad Omar imposed strict isolation on Osama bin Laden after 1998 to prevent him from carrying out any plots against the United States.

The evidence contradicts the claims by top officials of the Barack Obama administration that Mullah Omar was complicit in Osama bin Laden's involvement in the al Qaeda plot to carry out the terrorist attacks in the United States on Sep. 11, 2001. It also bolsters the credibility of Taliban statements in recent months asserting that it has no interest in al Qaeda's global jihadist aims.

A primary source on the relationship between bin Laden and Mullah Omar before 9/11 is a detailed personal account provided by Egyptian jihadist Abu'l Walid al-Masri published on Arabic-language jihadist websites in 1997.

Al-Masri had a unique knowledge of the subject, because he worked closely with both bin Laden and the Taliban during the period. He was a member of bin Laden's Arab entourage in Afghanistan, but became much more sympathetic to the Afghan cause than bin Laden and other al Qaeda officials from 1998 through 2001.

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[leftynyc]

1. Mullah Omar

may have not been involved in international terrorism with bin laden but he was wholly responsible for the wretched conditions for women in Afghanistan. It was his taliban rules that kept women inside if there was no man to escort them and all the other religious decrees for the taliban (no music, dancing). Women were virtual slaves and he was the reason. Fuck him.

[FailureToCommunicate]

2. Don't forget Taliban blowing up schools for girls with the kids in them. School buses,

schools, girls, all the same target to them. Disgusting. Too bad U.S. money and weapons keep getting to them through extortion...

[leftynyc]

12. If we could irradicate the taliban

I'd be all for it. In reality, this is not possible without the deaths of many innocents.

[Arctic Dave]

4. I take ot you will be leading the charge to wage war with Saudi Arabia?

Was this guy worth the military killing innocent people and all the war crimes they commited?

It is bad enough when we think we need to be the World police, now you think we should be the world morality police. If this is the case then you must really enjoy war and death because the planet is full of assholes like this guy.

[Mari333]

7. [phone]

[dipsydoodle]

8. + Graham's Number.

.

[leftynyc]

13. Do you get off

by putting words in people's mouths? Because that's what you're doing here.

[leftynyc]

11. Fuck Off

All I did was point out that that despite not being involved with bin laden's plans for 9/11 didn't mean the man wasn't a piece of shit. Take your kneejerk crap elsewhere.

[mike_c]

5. how many other countries do you want war with because you don't like...

...their laws and customs? There are HUNDREDS to choose from!

[leftynyc]

10. Oh For Heavens Sake

Who said anything about going to war with anyone? Why is that anytime anyone says anything having to do with someone of the Muslim faith, that person automatically is calling for war. It's fucking moronic.

[EFerrari]

6. RAWA is against the escalation. n/t

[leftynyc]

9. I know that

I'm not sure what that has to do with Mullah Omar (who is reported to be living quite comfortably in Quetta, Pakistan).

[EFerrari]

16. Yeah, he's been in Quetta this whole time

and nobody seems to care. I agree, fuck him. But not the Afghan people in the name of fucking him.

[leftynyc]

17. Total agreement

I may want bin laden's head on a platter but I'm not willing to kill a bunch of innocents to get it (regardless of what morons on this thread divine from my complaint about mullah omar).

[EFerrari]

18. Gotcha.

:hi:

[Arctic Dave]

3. You mean to tell me we have been lied to? Say it isn't so.

Anyone who thinks this entire endeavor was not a reason to wage an unjustified war and occupation on the entire ME and it's people are beyond despicable.

People need to be tried and hung for their crimes.

[Robb]

14. Afghanistan is not in the Middle East. nt

[Arctic Dave]

19. Corrct. It is easier to to recognize this way for most people then the far east.

[dipsydoodle]

15. Broadly speaking

the Taliban are homies and as such have no real interest in the outside world. So its hadly suprising they would have
much interest, if any, in al Qaeda's global jihadist aims.