World News 01-10-2001 Taliban: We Have Bin Laden who: Taliban what: Admit they are protecting Osama bin Laden where: Afghanistan when: Yesterday snippet: Afghanistan`s Taliban regime has admitted sheltering terrorist Osama bin Laden at a secret location "for his safety and security", reports The Guardian today. "Taliban leaders again pledged to negotiate with the United States if it could provide evidence bin Laden was involved in the September 11 atrocities," reports The Sun. "But the US rejected the offer - and warned the public to be on guard." "The Taleban`s admission was delivered by its Ambassador to Pakistan, Mullah Abdul Salam Zaeef," reports The Times, "and follows two weeks of stalling from Kabul about bin Laden`s whereabouts." "It was just a few days ago that they said they didn`t know where he was," said defence secretary Donald Rumsfeld in Washington DC, "so I have no reason to believe anything a Taliban representative would say." [... more]

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