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AP | 6/13/03 | LARRY MARGASAK

[VRWC_minion]

Statement by the President on the Imposition of Sanctions against the Taliban
President William J. Clinton

I have signed an Executive Order imposing financial and other commercial sanctions on the Afghan Taliban for its support of Usama bin Ladin and his terrorist network.  The Taliban has allowed the territory under its control to be used as a safe haven and base of operations for Usama bin Ladin and the Al Qaida organization, who were responsible for the bombings of our embassies in Nairobi, Kenya and Dar es Salaam, Tanzania last year, murdering 12 Americans, nearly 300 Kenyans and Tanzanians and wounding another 5,000.  To this day, bin Ladin and his network continue to plan new attacks against Americans, without regard for the innocence of their intended victims or for those non-Americans who might get in the way of his attack.

The United States has tried repeatedly, directly and working with other governments, to persuade the Taliban to expel bin Ladin to the United States for trial or, if that is not possible, to a third country where he will face justice for his crimes, and to end the safe haven it gives to bin Ladin's network, which lives and trains in Taliban-controlled Afghanistan. These efforts have failed.

The Executive Order I have signed will deepen the international isolation of the Taliban, limit its ability to support terrorist networks and demonstrate the need to conform to accepted norms of international behavior.  The Order does not affect humanitarian aid, food and medical supplies for civilian use.  It is not aimed at the people of Afghanistan, but at the Taliban.  Those who nurture terrorism must understand that we will not stand by while those whom they protect target Americans.

Source: Office of the Press Secretary (Clarksdale, Mississippi)

[ElkGroveDan]

I think that every time they do a story on this little sh*t, they need to also run photos of those planes slamming into the WTC, pictures of the innocent people falling 100 stories to their deaths.....maybe include a clip from the Flight 93 cockpit tape.

Every time this collaborator demands his rights as an American, people need to be reminded of the death and suffering that he and his associates inflicted on our nation that terrible, horrible day.

Anyone who would collaborate with foreign enemies to attack his own nation deserves none of the rights otherwise entitled to it's civilized citizens.

[William Tell]

ElkGroveDan said: "Anyone who would collaborate with foreign enemies to attack his own nation deserves none of the rights otherwise entitled to it's civilized citizens."

This sounds like the mentality of a lynch mob.

The rights to which civilized citizens are entitled exist in order to determine who is guilty and who is innocent, not as a reward for only being accused of a minor crime.