Originally Posted by
Forogil
The US wanted Osama bin Laden handed over to justice.
The Taliban "offer" was to hand over him to something that had all the signs of a kangaroo court; and it was unworkable for other reasons; you tried to mislead about this by calling it a "third party"; which is just false.
But at least you are no longer going with your original lie about Taliban and al-Qaida being opposed to each other.
Pakistan and both the Taliban in Afghanistan and al-Qaida have deep ties, that isn't just due to geography as there are no similar links with Iran and China, but unfortunately there are few states in the region that can be trusted.
There's a reason Osama bin Laden hid in Pakistan.
So, yes, I know geography and geopolitics.
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Oh, and just a point of clarity for people in the US: Osama bin Laden is normally written with a decapitalized "bin", meaning "son of" (although technically his father was named Muhammed, whose grandfather was Laden).