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Article: Afghanistan's Taliban rulers clear bin Laden of terrorist charges
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- November 20, 1998
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KATHY GANNON Associated Press Writer
AP Online
11-20-1998
KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) _ The man accused of orchestrating the U.S. embassy bombings in Tanzania and Kenya was declared a free man today in Afghanistan, where he has lived for years with the permission of the hard-line Islamic Taliban militia.
The Taliban, who control about 90 percent of Afghanistan, today closed their three-week inquiry into allegations that Osama bin Laden is waging a war of terror against the United States.
``It's over, and America has not presented any evidence,'' Afghanistan's chief justice, Noor Mohammed Saqib, told The Associated Press in an interview at the Supreme Court building in the Afghan ...