Islamist sources said Afghanistan's ruling Taliban...
Islamist sources said Afghanistan's ruling Taliban were considering a prisoner swap with the United States as a trial in Kabul of eight foreign aid workers for promoting Christianity -a charge that carries the death penalty - began its third day
Islamist sources said Afghanistan's ruling Taliban were considering a prisoner swap with the United States as a trial in Kabul of eight foreign aid workers for promoting Christianity -a charge that carries the death penalty - began its third day.
There has been no public comment from the hardline Taliban movement on the swap deal proposed by relatives of blind Egyptian militant Sheikh Omar Abdel-Rahman, currently serving life for terrorism.
Sheikh Omar, spiritual leader of Egypt's main militant group a-Gama's al-Islamiya (Islamic Group), was convicted in 1995 of plotting to blow up the World Trade Centre, bomb the United Nations, kill Egypt's president and destroy New York tunnels.
There has been no public comment from the hardline Taliban movement on the swap deal proposed by relatives of blind Egyptian militant Sheikh Omar Abdel-Rahman, currently serving life for terrorism.
Sheikh Omar, spiritual leader of Egypt's main militant group a-Gama's al-Islamiya (Islamic Group), was convicted in 1995 of plotting to blow up the World Trade Centre, bomb the United Nations, kill Egypt's president and destroy New York tunnels.
— SOURCES
- (Sources: Reuters, 06/09/2001)