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Al Qaeda

Dan Snow's History Hit

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The Politics of Convenience

Afy: If you're going to have a global war on terror, then let's enshrine this in. There may well be an issue of personal politics. In pushton wali, the talaban government in carbala ime had agreed in principle to consider releasing bin laven to a place of safety. This is where, if the purpose was to prevent afghanistan being,. if you like, a bas or a launch pad for international terrorism, this could have been very easily resolved by doing that rather than what we have seen happen in the last 20 years.

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