> Anyway, getting bin Laden on trial wouldn't have done
> anthing to the jihadi infrastructure.
Yes. Moreover, there was (& there is still) a danger of creeping talibanisation of Pakistani state and society: A state armed with nuclear weapons and missiles, aircrafts & ships to deliver them.
Ulhas
> --- uvj at vsnl.com wrote:
>
> > Andy F wrote:
> >
> > > A variant of which the Taliban supposedly offered
> > -- giving up ObL on
> > > the onerous condition that he be tried in a third
> > country.
> > >
> > > Since this would have resembled police work (as
> > opposed to a good
> > > stiffdicked war), their sincerity was never
> > tested.
> >
> > Taliban government was recognised by three states,
> > Pakistan, Saudi Arabia and UAE. Which third country
> > could have tried Osama bin Laden?
> >