Bin Laden under house arrest

**plenderj** · Sep 13th, 2001, 07:46 AM

http://au.dailynews.yahoo.com/headli...141825578.html

**CiberTHuG** · Sep 13th, 2001, 11:10 AM

bin Laden is wanted in connection to the 1998 bombing of the WTC. I wonder if Afganistan will consider extradiction.

'Course, we don't recognize the Taliban leadership, yet.

**filburt1** · Sep 13th, 2001, 12:36 PM

Do you mean 1993 bombing?

**sail3005** · Sep 13th, 2001, 12:37 PM

i heard that wasn't true

**SteveCRM** · Sep 13th, 2001, 02:38 PM

1998 was the embasy bombing (also by him)

**filburt1** · Sep 13th, 2001, 02:40 PM

I was thinking about the WTC bombing in 1993. Oops.

**CiberTHuG** · Sep 13th, 2001, 02:44 PM

Okay, my bad. The trade center bombing was in '93 and the embassy bombing was in '98.

Well, bin Laden is wanted in connection with one or both of those crimes.

**chrisjk** · Sep 13th, 2001, 04:14 PM

All of them. He's just been official named as the prime suspect this time too

**aknisely** · Sep 13th, 2001, 05:54 PM

The United States would never extradite and try Bin Laden. Not in a million years.

**parksie** · Sep 13th, 2001, 05:56 PM

No, they'd just blow the **** out of him.

**SteveCRM** · Sep 13th, 2001, 08:31 PM

he'll be stoned before he gets off the plane and touches our soil

**aknisely** · Sep 13th, 2001, 08:32 PM

He won't get anywhere close. The Mosad or the CIA will kill him in Afghanistan.

**plenderj** · Sep 14th, 2001, 11:24 AM

Well last night I heard on the news that the Taliban will hand him over if the US can prove it was him !

DerFarm · Sep 14th, 2001, 11:26 AM

I wonder what definition of proof they will require. Beyond a
shadow of a doubt (murder 1) or convincing evidence (civil law) or
preponderance of evidence (non-murder felony).

**plenderj** · Sep 14th, 2001, 11:33 AM

I think proof that he orchestrated the attacks on the states is what they need. Nothing else would probably do.
Including murder.

**aknisely** · Sep 14th, 2001, 12:42 PM

Originally posted by plenderj
Well last night I heard on the news that the Taliban will hand him over if the US can prove it was him !

He isn't going to be extradited, though. He will be shot in Afghanistan.

DerFarm · Sep 14th, 2001, 01:13 PM

Technically, you can't extradite if you don't have a treaty. It's
hard to have a treaty if you don't recognize the government.

I guess the Pakistanis could get extradition and then further
extradite to the US (Pakistan is 1 of 3 nations that recognize the
Taliban)

**SurfDemon** · Sep 14th, 2001, 02:49 PM

I'm not trying to be funny, but I thought he lived in a cave surrounded by armed gunmen. So how can he really be under house arrest?

Seriously. If he has all these people willing to die for him? Surely breaking him out would be easy peasy - lemon squeezy!!!

SD

**aknisely** · Sep 14th, 2001, 05:36 PM

I'm not trying to be funny, but I thought he lived in a cave surrounded by armed gunmen. So how can he really be under house arrest?

House arrest for someone like Osama bin Laden probably means he was moved to a palace in Afghanistan.

And I'm not kidding.

**plenderj** · Sep 15th, 2001, 08:21 AM

I have a theory on this one.

Nobody wants to be at the business end of a US retaliation.
Especially not a pisspot little country.
Now, Bush said that he'll strike any host nation.

The taliban said they'd give him to an islamic court if it was him, so in effect, the taliban are saying that they are not a host nation.
So that means that bush cant really attack them.

**aknisely** · Sep 15th, 2001, 01:35 PM

The taliban said they'd give him to an islamic court if it was him, so in effect, the taliban are saying that they are not a host nation.
So that means that bush cant really attack them.

The fact that the Taliban has been housing, funding, and hiding Osama and his ilk for years somewhat gives the United States the right to deal with Afghanistan however they choose.

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