[lbo-talk] Hersh: How a secret Pentagon program came to Abu Ghraib

[Yoshie Furuhashi]

>C. G. Estabrook wrote:
>
>>Assume that, in the fall of 2001, forces from UNOTKIDN (UN Office 
>>for Terrorist Kinesis, Informatics, and Dire Noetics -- headed by 
>>three generals, a Brazilian, an Iranian, and an Indian) demands the 
>>extradition of Osama bin Laden from Afghanistan and that the 
>>Taliban replies (as they did) that they want evidence of of ObL's 
>>involvement, and that he be tried before Muslim judges.  UNOTKIDN 
>>provides the evidence, establishes th court, and ObL and his 
>>lieutenants in Afghanistan are delivered up for trial
>
>What would constitute the valid proof in a situation involving 
>_covert and deniable_ acts of terror? What kind of proof would have 
>been acceptable to Taliban? Based on Islamic jurisprudence, perhaps?
>
>Ulhas

I don't think that the Taliban were particularly interested in 
"proof" per se.  Rather, the Taliban could have been bought off by 
the sort of deal that Washington cut with Pervez Musharaf.  The deal 
was cheap, from Washington's point of view, and it has already netted 
more valuable al-Qaida suspects than bombing Afghanistan has: e.g., 
Abu Zubaidah, Ramzi Binalshibh, Khalid Sheikh Mohammad, Walid bin 
Attash, etc.
-- 
Yoshie

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