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Taliban lost track of bin Laden in fall of Kabul: Ambassador
The Taliban said on Tuesday that Osama bin Laden was in Kabul when it fell to the Northern Alliance, but that it had since lost track of him.
The Taliban said on Tuesday that Osama bin Laden was in Kabul when it fell to the Northern Alliance, but that it had since lost track of him.
Bin Laden was in Kabul during its fall (on November 13). He left there and since then we no longer know if he is in Afghanistan or has left the country, Abdul Salam Zaeef, the Taliban`s ambassador to Islamabad, told Qatar`s al-Jazeera satellite television channel.
US President George W. Bush said the noose is beginning to narrow around bin Laden, chief suspect in the September 11 terrorist strikes in the United States, but refused to set a deadline for his capture.
Zaeef confirmed that Mohammad Atef, one of bin Laden`s deputies and military commander of his al-Qaeda network, was killed close to a Kandahar market.
It is a war. It is normal for there to be (human) losses. Arab brothers and Afghans have died, maybe thousands of them, he said, without giving an exact number of casualties. Zaeef blasted as a political plot the moves by the UN to organise an inter-Afghan conference, probably in Europe, on the future of the war-torn country.
Those who want to take part in it are not sincere. It is a useless political plot and we do not want to be involved in such a plot, he said.
Bureau Report
US President George W. Bush said the noose is beginning to narrow around bin Laden, chief suspect in the September 11 terrorist strikes in the United States, but refused to set a deadline for his capture.
Zaeef confirmed that Mohammad Atef, one of bin Laden`s deputies and military commander of his al-Qaeda network, was killed close to a Kandahar market.
It is a war. It is normal for there to be (human) losses. Arab brothers and Afghans have died, maybe thousands of them, he said, without giving an exact number of casualties. Zaeef blasted as a political plot the moves by the UN to organise an inter-Afghan conference, probably in Europe, on the future of the war-torn country.
Those who want to take part in it are not sincere. It is a useless political plot and we do not want to be involved in such a plot, he said.
Bureau Report