Can't give you a link, you need to do a nexis search to find this. If you have access to LN, search for the headline.
Quote:
The Ottawa Citizen
February 5, 2001 Monday FINAL EDITION
SECTION: NEWS, Pg. A7
LENGTH: 410 words
HEADLINE: Taliban offers to send bin Laden away in return for recognition
SOURCE: The Ottawa Citizen
DATELINE: KANDAHAR
BODY:
The Taliban authorities will consider sending Osama bin Laden, the Saudi-born terrorist behind the World Trade Center bombing, to a third country if the West will recognize them as Afghanistan's legitimate government.
"We hope the new American administration will be more flexible and engage with us," said Abdul Wakil Muttawakil, the Taliban foreign minister, as new UN sanctions begin to squeeze the hardline group.
Mr. Muttawakil has written to President George W. Bush saying his administration is prepared to resolve the Bin Laden issue through negotiations.
General Pervez Musharraf, Pakistan's military ruler, said the suggestion of sending Bin Laden abroad appeared workable. He added it was not clear which country might provide sanctuary to the world's most wanted terrorist but Yemen had been mentioned.Pakistan is the closest ally of the conservative administration.
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