Afghanistan's ruling Taliban have rejected President George W Bush's "second chance" offer to surrender terrorist suspect Osama bin Laden, the Afghan Embassy in Pakistan said on Saturday.
Bush told a news conference on Thursday that if the Taliban "cough him up and his people today" then the US will "reconsider what we're doing to your country." "You still have a second chance," Bush said. "Just bring him in, and bring his leaders and lieutenants and other thugs and criminals with him." In Islamabad, an official of the Afghan Embassy said, "We have rejected the Bush offer." The official, speaking on condition of anonymity, said Taliban authorities in Kandahar, Afghanistan, had informed their ambassador in Islamabad, Abdul Salam Zaeef, that the Bush offer wouldn't be accepted. Bureau Report