I vaguely remembered something about the Taliban not being recognized by the UN as Afghanistan's legitimate govt, apparently they were still acknowledging the govt in exile or something. Apparently that was a brief moment when the US actually cared about the UN's opinion, but, as usual, only because it was in their interest.
Anywho, I stumbled across a bloomberg article http://tinyurl.com/8mm6 It is dated 2/5/01 and this is the headline: Taliban Says It Will Swap Bin Laden for Recognition Even better, there was this comment from the Taliban foreign minister: "We hope the new American administration will be more flexible and engage with us" Oh yeah, they engaged all right... -- stuart Anyone who tells you they want a utopia wants to put chains on the souls of your children. They want to deny history and strangle any unforeseen possibility. They should be resisted to the last breath. -Bruce Sterling-
