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<body class='hmmessage'><div dir='ltr'>In the days leading up to the Kuwait War, the Russians were trying to broker a<br>settlement, and Colin Powell was assigned to expedite the prosecution of the <br>war quick before the Russians succeeded. (President GHWB badly wanted a<br>war to lessen his perceived "wimp factor", and Ambassador April Glaspie had<br>implicitly given Saddam a green light for his invasion, telling him that we had<br>no interest in his border disputes.) <br><br>In the spring of 2001, before 9/11, Taliban tried to turn over Osama bin Laden<br>to the USA and the Saudis, and they refused the offer.<br><br>After 9/11, the Taliban offered three times to turn over Osama bin Laden. The <br>first time, Taliban said they would turn him over if the USA provided proof that he <br>was guilty. The second time they offered to send him to a neutral country for <br>trial. The third time was after the bombing had started, and then the offer was<br>unconditional. The USA refused every time.<br><br>I can look up the sources for all if this, if anybody doubts any of it. One of the <br>reports of the Taliban offers comes solely from John Pilger, so that's the shakiest<br>point of the lot.<br><br><br><br><div><hr id="stopSpelling">Date: Mon, 9 Sep 2013 11:18:23 -0700<br>From: pagesincolor@yahoo.com<br>To: sosfbay-discuss@cagreens.org; palestineis@dslextreme.com<br>Subject: [GPSCC-chat] A Third Way On Syria Attack/no attack<br><br><div style="color:#000;background-color:#fff;font-family:times new roman, new york, times, serif;font-size:18pt;"><div>I just now heard about this on RT.com: Kerry made an insincere offer to allow the Syrians to turn over their chemical weapons to the UN within one week from now. If this happened, there would be no US strike on Syria. The Russians and the Syrians have accepted the offer and are taking this possibility seriously. Unfortunately, the US admin is not taking it seriously. A link to the report from CNN is pasted below.</div><div><br></div><div style="color:rgb(0, 0, 0);font-size:24px;font-family:times new roman,new york,times,serif;background-color:transparent;font-style:normal;">John Thielking<br></div><div><br></div><div style="color:rgb(0, 0, 0);font-size:24px;font-family:times new roman,new york,times,serif;background-color:transparent;font-style:normal;">http://www.cnn.com/2013/09/09/politics/syria-kerry/<br></div><div class="ecxyui_3_7_2_40_1378750211368_59" style="font-family:times new roman, new york, times, serif;font-size:18pt;"><div class="ecxyui_3_7_2_40_1378750211368_63" style="font-family:times new roman, new york, times, serif;font-size:12pt;"><br> </div> </div> <span></span><div></div></div><br>_______________________________________________
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