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...Pakistani army officer told TIME that the military and intelligence commands there enlisted former Taliban troops to track bin Laden. "We're certain he's still in Afghanistan," the source said Thursday. But by Saturday, a haze of conflicting reports had settled over the situation. The Taliban's envoy to Pakistan said bin Laden had left Afghanistan with his family?and then promptly took the story back. Pentagon officials considered a bin Laden escape unlikely but not absolutely impossible. A few days before, Defense Secretary Rumsfeld had offhandedly mentioned that bin Laden may have tried to sneak...
...entry of the Northern Alliance into Kabul makes it imperative that the United States and the United Nations expedite the work of forming a coalition government. In a sign of progress, a U.N. envoy said yesterday that several Afghan groups (including the Northern Alliance) had agreed to meet in Berlin this weekend to begin talks, and had signed on to the U.N.’s vision of broad-based, multiethnic rule. The Northern Alliance has agreed to cede control in Kabul to such an interim government, but it must also allow a multinational peacekeeping force to temporarily take over...
Though the Sudanese at first welcomed bin Laden, eventually they decided he had to go, according to Turki. In 1996, Turki says, a Sudanese envoy arrived with a message: "We want to get him out. Will you take him?" The deal fell through, according to Turki, because the Saudis refused to accept the condition that bin Laden would not be prosecuted for his activities. Bin Laden wound up instead back in Afghanistan...
...Pakistani army officer told Time that the military and intelligence commands there enlisted former Taliban troops to track bin Laden. "We're certain he's still in Afghanistan," the source said Thursday. But by Saturday, a haze of conflicting reports had settled over the situation. The Taliban's envoy to Pakistan said bin Laden had left Afghanistan with his family--and then promptly took the story back. Pentagon officials considered a bin Laden escape unlikely but not absolutely impossible. A few days before, Defense Secretary Rumsfeld had offhandedly mentioned that bin Laden may have tried to sneak...
...Taliban era. The assembly agreed to invite the exiled king, Mohammed Zahir Shah, to play a moderating role and call a loya jirga, a grand council, to shape the country?s future government. But in a sign of the difficulty of building consensus, the king did not send an envoy and the Northern Alliance was not represented...