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| Taliban apologist changes her tune |
| 2001-10-08 |
She doesn't look at the world through veils. She isn't forced to stay inside her Bergen County, N.J., home. And she can say anything she wants. Maybe Laili Helms looks through rose-colored glasses. For sure, she is talking out of the other side of her mouth these days. Helms, an Afghan native who speaks three languages, coaches her sons' soccer team and is a niece-in-law of former CIA director Richard Helms, has long been a vocal supporter and adviser of the Taliban. She has seen no problem supporting a regime that won't let women work, that makes women stay inside their homes most of the time, and that flogs women for such crimes as speaking to an unrelated male. But since the Sept. 11 attacks and the Taliban's refusal to aid in the apprehension of those responsible, she has expressed a little different attitude. "I am horrified by what has happened and do not support the Taliban's resistance in handing over the terrorists." |
| Posted by:Fred Pruitt |