Taliban Vow

Nov 21, 2001

KABUL/SPIN BOLDAK - The Taliban said on Wednesday they no longer had any contact with fugitive militant Osama bin Laden, vowed to defend their southern stronghold to the death and told the world to leave them alone.

KABUL/SPIN BOLDAK - The Taliban said on Wednesday they no longer had any contact with fugitive militant Osama bin Laden, vowed to defend their southern stronghold to the death and told the world to leave them alone. As thousands of Taliban troops tried to negotiate a surrender in the besieged northern enclave of Kunduz, a spokesman for reclusive Taliban supreme leader Mullah Mohammad Omar broke weeks of silence to demand an end to U.S. bombing. Ends

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