Updated September 18, 2001, 11:00 a.m. ET
Pakistan ultimatum to Taliban: hand over bin Laden or prepare for war  
  

KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — Afghanistan's Taliban rulers discussed conditions for possibly extraditing Osama bin Laden to a country other than United States, a Pakistan government source said Tuesday, hours after the Taliban urged Afghans to prepare for a holy war.

The conditions, including international recognition of the Taliban government and lifting of U.N. sanctions, were discussed in a meeting Monday in Kandahar, headquarters of the Islamic militia that rules most of Afghanistan, the official said on condition of anonymity.

No final agreement was reached, he said. But the Pakistan delegation, which is currently in the Afghan capital of Kabul, had delivered a blunt message to the Taliban: Either hand over bin Laden or be sure to be attacked by a multinational military force, led by the United States.

A grand council of Islamic clerics was gathering Tuesday in Kabul to discuss the ultimatum. But the ruling Taliban said bin Laden has been wrongly implicated in last week's terror attacks in New York and Washington, and they have been preparing Afghans for the worst.

 

 
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