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US 'planned attack on Taleban'
BBC News
By the BBC's George Arney
9/18/01
A former Pakistani diplomat has told the BBC that the
US was planning military action against Osama Bin
Laden and the Taleban even before last week's attacks.
Niaz Naik, a former Pakistani Foreign Secretary, was
told by senior American officials in mid-July that
military action against Afghanistan would go ahead by
the middle of October. Mr Naik said US officials told
him of the plan at a UN-sponsored international
contact group on Afghanistan which took place in
Berlin.
Mr Naik told the BBC that at the meeting the US
representatives told him that unless Bin Laden was
handed over swiftly America would take military action
to kill or capture both Bin Laden and the Taleban
leader, Mullah Omar.
The wider objective, according to Mr Naik, would be to
topple the Taleban regime and install a transitional
government of moderate Afghans in its place - possibly
under the leadership of the former Afghan King Zahir
Shah.
Mr Naik was told that Washington would launch its
operation from bases in Tajikistan, where American
advisers were already in place. He was told that
Uzbekistan would also participate in the operation and
that 17,000 Russian troops were on standby.
Mr Naik was told that if the military action went
ahead it would take place before the snows started
falling in Afghanistan, by the middle of October at
the latest.
He said that he was in no doubt that after the World
Trade Center bombings this pre-existing US plan had
been built upon and would be implemented within two or
three weeks.
And he said it was doubtful that Washington would drop
its plan even if Bin Laden were to be surrendered
immediately by the Taleban
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