YouTube: Back in Feburary of 2001, the Taliban offered to hand Bin Laden over to the US. ⇒
6 October 2006, lunch time
They wanted sanctions against the country dropped. What effect having Bin Laden would have had on everything that followed is anyones guess mind you.
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