FT.com / Weekend / Reportage - A professor?s bold thinking on terrorism
… “I would have asked the media to make films of every Jordanian, every Egyptian, every Muslim family who had come to the US to live a peaceful and positive life, only to have it blown to smithereens by al-Qaeda. And I would have broadcast the films all over the Middle East.” She would then have put enormous pressure on the Saudis and the Pakistanis – the only two nations to have relations with the Taliban – to hand over Osama bin Laden. Not to the US, but to an international court – ideally somewhere in the Middle East. “I would have invited them to name their most eminent jurist, and given him or her all the evidence we had that bin Laden was responsible.” There was ample evidence of tension between the Taliban and bin Laden, and the intelligence services knew this, she says…