Plausability Check: Taliban cooperation with the US after 9/11

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Even before 9/11, there were those in the Taliban government who wanted to "resolve" the OBL issue, and there had been several attempts to negotiate some solution, generally met with intransigenceon both sides.


http://www.aljazeera.com/news/asia/2011/09/20119115334167663.html

https://www.foreignpolicyjournal.co...-light-on-early-taliban-offers-pakistan-role/

So, in the aftermath of 9/11, would it be at all possible for Taliban leaders to say "oh shit! OBL's gotta go!" and give him up? How about some of the moderates making a deal to basically rat out OBL and AQ (and possibly some of the hard line Talib) in exchange for no US invasion?
 

Anaxagoras

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IIRC, the Taliban basically gave the green light to OBL to carry out the attacks in exchange for having Al Qaeda assassinate Ahmad Shah Massoud. So they knew their hands with bloody anyway.
 
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King Thomas said:
It went against Afghan tradition to do so-Afghans protect their guests.
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That was the *official* excuse for non-cooperation, and IMHO, fairly easily dealt with. "OBL has violated the honor of the generous people of Afghanistan, and in doing so forfeited his right to melmastia."

Anaxagoras said:
IIRC, the Taliban basically gave the green light to OBL to carry out the attacks in exchange for having Al Qaeda assassinate Ahmad Shah Massoud. So they knew their hands with bloody anyway.
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And giving up OBL allows them to get rid of a second problem.

Jukra said:
Moslems always protect their guests just like Christian tend to turn their another cheek and Buddhists refrain from killing anyone... just sayin'
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Exactly.
 
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King Thomas said:
It went against Afghan tradition to do so-Afghans protect their guests.
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Also, note that the Taliban were talking with the US for *three years* about handing him over. The sticking point wasn't the Pastunwali.

Former CIA station chief Milt Bearden told the Post, “We never heard what they were trying to say…. We had no common language. Ours was, ‘Give up bin Laden.’ They were saying, ‘Do something to help us give him up.'” Bearden added, “I have no doubts they wanted to get rid of him. He was a pain in the neck,” but this “never clicked” with U.S. officials.
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https://www.foreignpolicyjournal.co...-light-on-early-taliban-offers-pakistan-role/
 
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