Bin Laden to be tried

Bin Laden to be tried

ISLAMABAD (DPA): The radical Taliban Islamic militia ruling
Afghanistan appears ready for a trial in the United States of
Osama bin Laden, the Arab dissident in hiding in the pariah
state, accused by Washington of international terrorism, a
Pakistani newspaper Saturday reported.

But "the Saudi millionaire will testify only through satellite
technology (from his hideout)," Islamabad-based newspaper The
News said in a report from Kandahar, the Taliban's political seat
in southwestern Afghanistan.

"We cannot trust his life with those who want to kill him," an
unidentified Taliban official explained why Osama would not
appear before a jury in person.

That was in fact an indirect reference to the American missile
attack in 1998 against a base Osama was suspected to run for
training terrorists inside Afghanistan. Osama escaped the assault
but 19 others were killed.