‘Musharraf met Mulla Omar in 2000’:PAK Daily Times

[Trajan]

http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=story_29-3-2004_pg7_14

‘Musharraf met Mulla Omar in 2000’

Daily Times Monitor

WASHINGTON: A report released by a commission investigating the September 11 attacks on the US has said Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf met Taliban chief Mulla Mohammed Omar in April 2000 to convince him to expel Al Qaeda leader Osama Bin Laden, reports the Press Trust of India.

The report said the meeting took place at the request of former US president Bill Clinton after he raised the issue during his visit to Pakistan on March 25, 2000, PTI added.

The report stated, “The Pakistanis asked for evidence that Bin Laden had really ordered the US embassy bombings (in East Africa) a year and a half earlier. In a follow-up meeting the next day with Under Secretary of State Thomas Pickering, President Musharraf argued that Pakistan had only limited influence over the Taliban.”

Despite these reservations, President Musharraf “did meet Mulla Omar and did urge him to get rid of Bin Laden”, it said.

-snip-

[burrowowl]

1. Hmmm!

Really!?
Was this in a brief, did GW ignore this?

[BOHICA06]

2. About as effective

as the Bush request after 9/11 ...