Thu, Oct 18, 2001 - Page 1 News List

Taliban official offers to hand over bin Laden

LAST-MINUTE DEAL At a secret meeting in Pakistan, the Taliban foreign minister has offered to turn over the suspected terrorist mastermind in exchange for a halt to US bombing

THE GUARDIAN , ISLAMABAD, PAKISTAN

The US administration has not publicly supported the idea of a trial for bin Laden outside America and appears intent on removing from power the Taliban leader Mullah Mohammed Omar and the hardliners in the regime.

It is not clear how the Taliban foreign minister traveled from Kabul to Pakistan without approval from the US. One report in the US yesterday suggested that Pakistani intelligence flew him out of the country in a small aircraft.

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