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Monday, 09/24/2001 5:32:57 PM

Monday, September 24, 2001 5:32:57 PM

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Ah so a little bit of the truth starts coming out. Should go with some of the other stuff that what we are being told is not the 'real' reason or truth. When intrests combined with a lota money are involved, anything makes for an excuse.




US 'planned attack on Taleban' The wider objective was to oust the Taleban

By the BBC's George Arney
A former Pakistani diplomat has told the BBC that the US was planning military action against Osama Bin Laden and the Taleban even before last week's attacks.

Niaz Naik, a former Pakistani Foreign Secretary, was told by senior American officials in mid-July that military action against Afghanistan would go ahead by the middle of October.

Mr Naik said US officials told him of the plan at a UN-sponsored international contact group on Afghanistan which took place in Berlin.

Mr Naik told the BBC that at the meeting the US representatives told him that unless Bin Laden was handed over swiftly America would take military action to kill or capture both Bin Laden and the Taleban leader, Mullah Omar.

The wider objective, according to Mr Naik, would be to topple the Taleban regime and install a transitional government of moderate Afghans in its place - possibly under the leadership of the former Afghan King Zahir Shah.



http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/world/south_asia/newsid_1550000/1550366.stm

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