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Article: Attack on America -- Afghanistan Clerics Want Bin Laden to Go Away - - U.S. not satisfied with decision, which stops short of expelling or delivering
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- Yakima Herald-Republic
- Article date:
- September 21, 2001
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terrorist chief
By EDWARDA. GARGAN
NEWSDAY
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan - Seeking to head off U.S. military strikes,
Afghanistan's senior clerics voted Thursday that Osama bin Laden
should be invited to voluntarily leave the country. But they stopped
short of recommending that the ruling Taliban movement force him to
leave or hand him over to U.S. authorities as the United States
demands.
The Bush administration, which accuses bin Laden of or-dering
last week's terrorist attacks on New York and Washington, quickly
brushed aside the clerics' statement as inadequate. The White House
gave no indication it saw the statement even as a basis for further
discussions with the Taliban.
"It does not meet ...