Portsmouth Herald World/National News: U.S. Jets Pound Targets Around Kabul
Bush ordered the strikes Oct. 7 after Afghanistan's Islamic regime refused repeated demands to surrender bin Laden, chief suspect in the Sept. 11 hijackings that killed an estimated 6,000 people at the World Trade Center, the Pentagon and in a Pennsylvania field. Taliban Deputy Prime Minister Haji Abdul Kabir offered Sunday to surrender bin Laden for trial in an unspecified third country if Washington stopped the bombing and provided the Taliban with evidence of the Saudi dissident's guilt. Bush said no. ``We know he's guilty. Turn him over,'' the president said in Washington. Bush rejected a similar offer aired by a lower-ranking Taliban official before he began the military strikes, now in its ninth day.
Bush ordered the strikes Oct. 7 after Afghanistan's Islamic regime refused repeated demands to surrender bin Laden, chief suspect in the Sept. 11 hijackings that killed an estimated 6,000 people at the World Trade Center, the Pentagon and in a Pennsylvania field.
Taliban Deputy Prime Minister Haji Abdul Kabir offered Sunday to surrender bin Laden for trial in an unspecified third country if Washington stopped the bombing and provided the Taliban with evidence of the Saudi dissident's guilt. Bush said no.
``We know he's guilty. Turn him over,'' the president said in Washington.
Bush rejected a similar offer aired by a lower-ranking Taliban official before he began the military strikes, now in its ninth day.
