War on Terror Update

This is CNN:

A former foreign minister for the ousted Taliban militia has called on his former comrades to hold talks with the U.S.-backed Afghan government, and criticized Osama bin Laden for never caring for his host country in an interview on Pakistani television.

"I ask the Taliban to hold talks with the Afghan government. It will be good for our people," Wakil Ahmed Muttawakil said on Tuesday in comments carried by the Khyber news channel.
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In the interview, Muttawakil criticized bin Laden for refusing to heed a request made just before American bombing began in late 2001 to leave Afghanistan.

"I was surprised that he (bin Laden) did not do it," he said in his native Pastu language.

After the Taliban refused to turn bin Laden over for his role in the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks, the United States launched a bombing campaign that helped oust the religious militia.

Muttawakil said he met with bin Laden three or four times in his capacity as foreign minister and "found him to be a very religious person, but not a scholar."

Interesting developments...