Memo shows Iraq, Iran tried to contact bin Laden

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Memo shows Iraq, Iran tried to contact bin Laden

September 12, 2003 The Washington Times Eli J. Lake

The Taliban claimed in a 1997 meeting with U.S. officials that it had blocked attempts by both Iraq and Iran to contact Osama bin Laden, according to a previously confidential State Department memo made public yesterday.

The memo says that the assistant secretary of state, Karl Inderfurth, was told on Dec. 7, 1997, by the Taliban's acting minister of mines and industry, Armad Jan, that his government "had stopped allowing [bin Laden] to give public interviews and had frustrated Iranian and Iraqi efforts to contact him."

Contacted yesterday, Mr. Inderfurth said he did not believe the Taliban claim was credible at the time, and that he had no recollection of Taliban officials mentioning Iraqi or Iranian attempts to meet bin Laden in the following 19 meetings he would attend with the de facto Afghan regime for the next four years.

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Memo to terrorists: If you want to contact OBL but local folks won't let you through, just to to the local Saudi top guy and check with him. He'll contact OBL and have him get back to you if you want to talk about a subject that is of interest to him. It is not that the Saudis are actually consorting with OBL, it is just that OBL has hired the Saudis as his telemarketing call blocking service.