There was some report after 9/11 relating to Taliban offering USA to capture or eliminate Osama on its own in Afghanistan without involving Taliban’ authorities. In given news the Talibans it seems were tired of Osama much earlier…..
Taliban wanted Osama dead
WASHINGTON: Top Taliban officials, during secret meetings with the US officials in 1998, discussed assassinating or expelling Osama bin Laden in response to Al Qaida’s deadly bombings of American embassies in Africa, according to State Department documents, CNN has reported.
The newly-declassified documents, posted on Thursday on the National Archives website, provide a fascinating glimpse into US diplomacy exerted on Afghanistan’s ruling Taliban a regime officially unrecognised by Washington—nearly three years before the September 11, 2001, Al Qaida attacks on the United States.
According to the documents, the deputy chief of mission at the US embassy in Pakistan, Alan Eastham Jr, met with Wakil Ahmed, a close aide to Taliban leader Mullah Omar, in November and December 1998. That was just months after the August Al Qaida attacks that killed more than 200 people at the US embassies in Kenya and Tanzania.
“It is unbelievable that this small man did this to you,” Ahmed said during their meeting on December 19, 1998, according to the documents. Ahmed told Eastham that he spoke with Omar about bin Laden and that the Taliban still considered the Saudi exile “innocent”.
Talk of assassination during a meeting between Ahmed and Eastham on November 28, 1998, just days after the Taliban’s supreme court cleared bin Laden of terrorist activities,Ahmed said one possibility could be for the US to kill him or arrange for bin Laden to be assassinated. Ahmed said that the US, if it chose to do so, could arrange to have bin Laden killed by cruise missiles or other means, and there would be little the Taliban could do to prevent it," according to the documents.
Another alternative, Ahmed said, would be for the US to provide the Taliban with cruise missiles to have “the situation resolved in this way.” Ahmed also noted that expelling bin Laden likely would result in the Taliban regime being overthrown, according to the documents.
