Posted on 08/19/2005 10:07:28 AM PDT by Para-Ord.45
A year before the Sept. 11 attacks, a U.S. diplomat assured a top official of Afghanistan's ruling Taliban regime that international sanctions on that country would be lifted if it expelled Osama bin Laden, newly declassified documents show.
A State Department memo dated September 2000 also said the United States did not seek to topple the Taliban despite its record of human rights abuses.
The memo was among documents obtained by the National Security Archive, a private research group based at George Washington University, under a Freedom of Information Act request. The group posted the documents on its Web site Thursday.
"The ambassador added that the U.S. was not against the Taliban, per se," and "was not out to destroy the Taliban," Ambassador William B. Milam wrote in the secret cable to Washington...
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How many more revelations will it take before the entire world knows that KLINTON KNEW
Acting on the instructions of my government, I have the following proposal...
No envoy makes such a proposal without clearing it at the highest levels. The Secretary of State, Ms. Albright, should come clean on this.
How many more revelations will it take before the entire world knows that ( both ) KLINTONS KNEW
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