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Defiant Taliban Reject `Hand Over bin Laden' Demand
Saturday, October 13, 2001
(13:47)
Ananova

Downing Street today appealed to the Western media to treat claims of large-scale civilian casualties with scepticism.

Afghanistan's Taliban rulers have defiantly rejected US President George Bush's second chance offer to surrender Osama bin Laden.

Their response came just hours after US jets, backed up by British forces, resumed attacks on the Afghanistan capital Kabul, following a brief suspension for yesterday's Muslim day of prayer.

An official at the Afghan Embassy in the Pakistani capital Islamabad said: "We have rejected the Bush offer."

The official said Taliban authorities in Kandahar, Afghanistan, had informed their ambassador in Pakistan, Abdul Salam Zaeef, that the Bush offer would not be accepted.
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