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| Binny free to leave but Afghans won't throw him out |
| 2001-09-15 |
| By Sami Aboudi DUBAI (Reuters) - An Afghan Taliban diplomat said on Saturday that Saudi-born militant Osama bin Laden, a prime suspect in the terror attacks on the United States, was free to leave Afghanistan but would not be forced out. ``If the man wanted to leave of his own will, we will not stop him. But if he wanted to stay in Afghanistan, we cannot make him leave,'' the Taliban charge d'affaires in the United Arab Emirates, Aziz al-Rahman, told Abu Dhabi television in an interview aired early on Saturday. Asked if there was any chance that the Taliban would consider handing over bin Laden to the United States to spare Afghanistan the prospect of military action, Aziz al-Rahman said in Arabic: ''Basically, this is not a consideration... We have no agreement with any country to extradite criminals or suspects to hand him over.'' |
| Posted by:Fred Pruitt |