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Date:
Mon,
15
Sep 2003
11:17:44
-0400
From:
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Subject:
Inderfurth
FYI,
from today'sclips.Mostly a Team 1 issue, methinks, but
it's
partially in
Scott's
ballpark,
too.
I'm
sure the good folks at the National Security Archivewould be thrilled to show us what they've
got,
if
it's
not already on the
web.
Bonus points for the
Byman
quote,
too.
Warren10. Memo Shows Iraq, Iran Tried To Contact Bin LadenBy Eli J. LakeUnited Press InternationalThe Taliban claimed in a
1997
meeting with
U.S.
officials that it had blockedattempts by both Iraq and Iran to contact Osama bin Laden, according to apreviously confidential State Department memo made public yesterday.The memo says that the assistant secretary of state, Karl Inderfurth, was told
on
Dec.
7,
1997,
by the
Taliban's
acting
minister
of
mines
and
industry,
Armad
Jan,
that his government
"had
stopped allowing
[bin
Laden] to give publicinterviews
and had
frustrated Iranian
and
Iraqiefforts
to
contact him.
"
Contacted yesterday,Mr.Inderfurth saidhe did notbelievethe
Taliban
claimwas credible at the time, and that he had no recollection of Taliban officialsmentioning Iraqi or Iranian attempts to meet bin Laden in the following 19meetings he would attend with the de facto Afghan regime for the next four
years
.
"I
never saw any evidence in anything I was doing where there were any Iraqiconnections," saidMr.Inderfurth,who was theClintonadministration'sseniorState
Department
official
forSouth
Asia.Iraqis were not to my knowledge,
players
in the Afghan conflict. Almostevery other country
in the
region
was
.
"
The memo, however, discloses a previously unreported link, or at least an Iraqi
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