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Taliban Removes Limits on bin Laden NewsMax.com WiresISLAMABAD, Pakistan – Afghanistan's ruling Taliban has removed all restrictions on terrorist mastermind Osama bin Laden and his al-Qaeda network, a Taliban diplomat said Monday. "Their right of freedom and expression has been restored," said Taliban ambassador to Pakistan Abdul Salam Zaeef. Monday's decision reverses repeated Taliban claims before Sept. 11 that bin Laden was isolated and denied access to modern communications. "When the Americans are out to destroy each and everything in Afghanistan, including schools, mosques and residential areas, how could he be debarred from freedom of expression?" Zaeef said. He said bin Laden was free to express his views – which he had been doing anyway. Since Oct. 7, the United States has bombed targets in Afghanistan due to the Taliban's failure to hand over bin Laden, who Washington says was behind the Sept. 11 terror attacks on New York and Washington that killed 5,000 people. Zaeef accused the United Nations of siphoning off donations to Afghanistan. He asked people, especially Muslims, to send donations directly to the Taliban. "The world community has donated generously to help Afghans in the hours of their trial, but Afghans are not receiving this aid in total," he said. Copyright 2001 by United Press International. All rights reserved.
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