Documents: U.S., Taliban bargained over bin Laden

CNN ^

[Lunatic Fringe]

WASHINGTON (CNN) -- During secret meetings with U.S. officials in 1998, top Taliban officials discussed assassinating or expelling Osama bin Laden in response to al Qaeda's deadly bombings of U.S. embassies in Africa, according to State Department documents.

The newly declassified documents, posted Thursday on the National Archives Web site, provide a fascinating glimpse into U.S. diplomacy exerted on Afghanistan's ruling Taliban -- a regime officially unrecognized by Washington -- nearly three years before the September 11, 2001, al Qaeda attacks on the United States.

[Stellar Dendrite]

Almost as bad as the Clinton legacy is the Bush 2 do nothing attitude about giving the Clinton people a pass on their corruption and negligence.

Puhleeeze...this doesnt rest soley on Bush's shoulders. What about the Republican congress? Look at all the scandals that occurred over those 8 years, lying under oath was the LEAST of Crinton's offenses!!

[federal]

This is the 2nd or 3rd report by the MSMedia I have seen on these particular documents.

I find it very interesting that not a single alphabet network has found it newsworthy to mention that the taliban blamed the African bombings on Saddam Hussein.

I'n sure it was just a coincidence that all the MSM people missed that part of these documents............

[Just mythoughts]

Something IS missing. Now we saw at WACO that Clintons had it in them to dispose of "trouble" makers, so somebody somewhere was paying off protection for OBL.

[ChefKeith]

It's unbelievable Clinton let this small man go so he could continue his murdering spree.

No it's not, he was too busy getting his willie wet to worry about anything else.

[1john2 3and4]

The constant dem mendacity about "no connection" and Berger's thefts are proof that Willie was on the take.

What you said.
and
why Burgler gets a pass, and why he's not hanging upside-down by his ankles waiting for something to fall out of his "pants" is a frustrating....mystery (I guess is the best word for now) to me.