• Krono@lemmy.today
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    1 year ago

    After 9/11, the Taliban wanted to negotiate with the US in order to extradite Osama Bin Laden. Their demands were simple:

    1. Stop bombing us.
    2. Give us some evidence that Bin Laden is guilty.

    Bush said ‘we dont negotiate with terrists lol’ and ramped up the bombing of Afghanistan, leading to the brutal invasion. Later we executed Bin Laden without a trial.

    I’m not sure how you could consider any of that legitimate.

    Bush rejects Taliban offer to hand Bin Laden over - The Guardian

    • TheSanSabaSongbird@lemdro.id
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      1 year ago

      This is a pretty well-debunked canard. 1) The Taliban knew OBL was guilty since AQ had basically admitted it and whatever else you can say about them, they aren’t stupid, and 2) their offer was to extradite him to a third neutral country --no candidate was ever named – that would ostensibly put him on trial free of US influence.

      The entire offer was absurd.