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Pakistan to Demand Taliban Give Up Bin Laden as Iran Seals Afghan Border
Sunday, September 16, 2001
Pakistan will be giving the Taliban militia who rule Afghanistan an ultimatum: Hand over Usama bin Laden or else.

A group of top Pakistani delegates will travel to the Taliban's headquarters in the southwest Afghan city of Kandahar Monday, a senior Pakistani official said on condition of anonymity. It will deliver a simple message: either give up bin Laden, the leading suspect in the terrorist attacks on New York and Washington, or risk massive retaliation by an international coalition.

The source did not say whether the Taliban would be given a deadline to comply.

Bin Laden has denied any connection to the attacks, though he has praised them. On Sunday, he reiterated his denial in a statement read by Qatar's al-Jazeera satellite television channel.

"I stress that I have not carried out this act, which appears to have been carried out by individuals with their own motivation," read the al-Jazeera announcer from the statement.

Fox News has learned that U.S officials were alerted by the Israeli foreign intelligence service, the Mossad, in August that a major attack was being planned by groups associated with, or even directly run by, bin Laden.
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A moot argument, at best. Whether guilty of the attack or not, by the word of our president, bin Laden remains a target as an active, non-repentant terrorist.

Dan (I refuse to loose sight of the specified target)