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Date Posted: Thu, Sep 13 2001, 17:35:06
Author: foxx
Subject: News from the Other Side...

How sickening is this?!

(URL = http://www.sabawoon.com/news.asp?id=4075&view=detail)

Taliban leader closes ranks behind bin Laden

ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, 9/13/2001 (AFP) :: Mullah Mohammad Omar, the reclusive supreme leader of the Taliban, said Thursday that Osama bin Laden could not be held responsible for the massive terrorist attacks on the United States.

In comments which made it clear that Afghanistan's ruling militia has no intention of bowing to pressure to hand over bin Laden, Omar said the Saudi dissident could not have masterminded an operation of the sophistication and complexity of Tuesday's killer attacks on New York and Washington.

Omar said in a statement issued to the Afghan Islamic Press, a Pakistan-based news agency with close links to the militia, that only trained pilots could have carried out the attacks and that bin Laden did not have any under his command.

"The incidents which took place in America are testimony to Osama bin Laden's innocence because where are Osama's pilots and where were they trained?" Omar argued.

"Blaming Osama without any rhyme or reason is a separate thing and a move by the (Western) intelligence agencies to escape their own failure."

Omar's comments followed similar remarks by the Taliban's foreign minister, Wakil Ahmed Mutawakel, who told AFP that reports of emerging evidence linking bin Laden to the attacks were not credible.

The Taliban's closing of ranks behind bin Laden, who they have sheltered since the mid 1990's, came as international aid workers evacuated Afghanistan in anticipation of a US attack on the country.

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Same paper, same day... [?!] -- foxx, Thu, Sep 13 2001, 17:40:41