>...Taliban government was recognised by only three governments,
>Saudi Arabia, Pakistan and United Arab Emirates. No other country
>recognised it as the official Afghan government. Afghanistan was
>represented in the UN by the Rabbani government in exile. How does
>the UN or any multilateral entity can deal with the Taliban
>government in Kabul without an armed invasion?...
This recognizes an important legal and political fact, but is not quite correct. The "Rabbani government," internationally recognized as the legal governmenr of Afghanistan, was not a "government in exile" because it controlled a large area in Northern and Western Afghanistan and was waging a continual war against the Taliban and their Pakistani ISI (=CIA) sponsors. Its foremost military commander, Ahmed Shah Massoud, was murdered by suicide-assassins barely two days before "9/11," and it would be naive at best to see that timing as coincidental.
The proper legal response to the "9/11" crime against humanity would have been for the UN Security Council to offer the recognized Afghan government (most of whose constituent factions were only marginally less awful than the Omar-BinLaden-Hekmatyar crew) international military support against the piratical gang that, with foreign assistance (and complicity), had seized most of its country. This of course was never envisaged because the military forces of the Afghan government (the "Northern Alliance") were oriented to the Russian and Iranian governments and would in no way serve as US quislings. So they were first neutralized, then forced to take the role of US auxiliaries in the presence of overwhelming US military force, and finally purged from the government of the US's puppet, Karzai. Meanwhile the Taliban leaders and the ISI military contingent were evacuated under US protection to Pakistan (the rank-and-file Taliban soldiers in Kunduz being left behind to be massacred by Northern Alliance elements under US supervision). And of course to this day the CIA/ISI assets Omar, Bin Laden, and Hekmatyar remain at large--with the longest possible odds against any of them ever being "brought to justice."
Shane Mage
"Thunderbolt steers all things...It consents and does not consent to be called Zeus."
Herakleitos of Ephesos