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| About that trip to Afghanistan... |
| 2001-09-29 |
| Washington Times Rev. Jesse Jackson is back in the spotlight. This latest chapter in the Jackson journals involves, of all people, the Taliban. The Taliban, Mr. Jackson told supporters at a fund-raiser for his Rainbow/PUSH Coalition earlier this week, want his help. "I got a call today from the Taliban spokesman in Pakistan, offering me to lead a peace delegation to the country." That was on Wednesday. On Thursday, the Taliban sort of set the record straight. "We have not invited him," Taliban Ambassador to Pakistan Abdul Salam Zaheef told the Afghan Islamic Press, "but he offered to mediate and our leader, Mullah Mohammed Omar, has accepted this offer. He has ordered the authorities to extend cooperation if Jesse Jackson visits Afghanistan. We will have no objection." Well, while the mullah might not object, the United States certainly does. In fact, the State Department has set all of them straight, saying the United States has "nothing to negotiate" with the Taliban and that Mr. Jackson "would not be carrying a message from the United States." |
| Posted by:Fred Pruitt |