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Documents show US, Taliban bargaining over Al-Qaeda chief
By: Mohamed Ali
WASHINGTON, United States: US State Department documents disclosed
that during secret meetings with American officials in 1998,
high-ranking Taliban officials discussed assassinating or expelling
Al-Qaeda terror network head Osama bin Laden in response to Al-Qaeda's
deadly bombings of US embassies in Africa.
The newly declassified documents, posted Thursday on the National
Archives Web site, provide a fascinating glimpse into US diplomacy
exerted on Afghanistan's ruling Taliban -- a regime officially
unrecognized by Washington -- nearly three years before the September
11, 2001, Al-Qaeda attacks on the United States.
According to the documents, the deputy chief of mission at the US
Embassy in Pakistan, Alan Eastham Jr., met with Wakil Ahmed, a close
aide to Taliban leader Mullah Omar, in November and December 1998.
That was just months after the August Al-Qaeda attacks that killed
more than 200 people at the US embassies in Kenya and Tanzania.
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US among nations that block human rights moves, Report
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NEW YORK, United States: The international aid agency Oxfam is accusing the United States, Brazil, India and Russia of blocking, or at the least of being lukewarm over, moves to enshrine an international duty to protect civilians from human rights atrocities.
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"Knowledge is
better than wealth because it protects you while you have to
guard wealth. it decreases if you keep on spending it but the
more you make use of knowledge ,the more it increases . what you
get through wealth disappears as soon as wealth disappears but
what you achieve through knowledge will remain even after you."MORE
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