U.S. Refusal of 2001 Taliban Offer Gave bin Laden a Free Pass
Syndicated from Common Dreams on Tue, 2011-05-03
<div class='node-body'><p><span>WASHINGTON - When George W. Bush rejected a Taliban offer to have Osama bin Laden tried by a moderate group of Islamic states in mid- October 2001, he gave up the only opportunity the United States would have to end bin Laden's terrorist career for the next nine years.<br />
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The al Qaeda leader was able to escape into Pakistan a few weeks later, because the Bush administration had no military plan to capture him.<br />
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