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  • Taliban leader (Mullar Omar) phoned U.S. after missile strikes (in 1998)

    09/10/2004 6:03:38 PM PDT · by NormsRevenge · 35 replies · 1,247+ views
    Bakersfield Californian ^ | 9/10/04 | William C. Mann - AP
    WASHINGTON (AP) - A day after former President Clinton sent cruise missiles against al-Qaida targets in Afghanistan, the leader of that country's ruling Taliban militia telephoned the State Department and offered to talk, according to a State Department message disclosed Friday. Little came of the contact, although Mullah Mohammed Omar counseled the department that the United States would never be accepted as a friend of the Muslims unless Congress forced Clinton to resign. Clinton announced Aug. 21, 1998, that he had sent cruise missiles "to strike at the network of radical groups affiliated with and funded by Osama bin Laden,...