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Guardian | Send foreign Taliban home for trial, says Gadafy Send foreign Taliban home for trial, says Gadafy Nicholas Watt Tuesday November 27, 2001 The Guardian The Libyan leader, Muammar Gadafy, has called for foreign Taliban fighters to be granted a safe passage back to their countries where they should stand trial. Colonel Gadafy, who recently condemned the Northern Alliance for behaving as ruthlessly as the Taliban, discussed his proposal to prevent a "massacre" in Afghanistan with the Egyptian president, Hosni Mubarak, in Tripoli on Sunday. His plan, according to the official Libyan press agency, would allow for the "beleaguered group of Arab Afghans to be handed over to their original countries [for] trial. The rest of the beleaguered Afghans [should be treated] as prisoners of war under the supervision of the United Nations". Col Gadafy's plan, first outlined last week, may have been overtaken by events on the ground in Afghanistan after the uprising by Taliban prisoners outside Mazar-i-Sharif and the fall of Kunduz. Egypt did not comment on the proposal. Its information minister, Safwat el-Sherif, simply said the talks had seen both leaders united in "tracking perpetrators of terrorism on an international level, especially since both countries have suffered from terrorist acts". Col Gadafy has condemned the attacks on the US. As a former sponsor of terrorism, however, he has used the crisis to offer his own insights into how to combat international terrorism. In an interview with the al-Jazeera satellite channel last month, he said the US would be better off bombing London than Afghanistan. "If the US wants seriously to eradicate terrorism, the first capital that should be pounded with cruise missiles is London. It is the shelter of terrorism." He added that the US should have the right to retaliate against the New York and Washington bombers if it knew who was responsible. But sticking to that principle would have allowed Libya to bomb the White House after the US raids on Tripoli in 1986. Guardian Unlimited © Guardian Newspapers Limited 2001 ==^================================================================ This email was sent to: archive@jab.org EASY UNSUBSCRIBE click here: http://topica.com/u/?a84x2u.a9WB2D Or send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] T O P I C A -- Register now to manage your mail! http://www.topica.com/partner/tag02/register ==^================================================================
