No outside trial for Osama: Taleban

No outside trial for Osama: Taleban

KARACHI, Pakistan (AFP): Afghanistan's Taleban authorities on
Wednesday said they would not deliver suspected terrorist Osama
bin Laden to a Lockerbie-style trial, saying there is no evidence
against him.

Afghan consul general in Pakistan Rehmat Akunzada said that if
the United States provided concrete evidence linking Osama to the
1998 U.S. embassy bombings in East Africa, he would be tried
under Islamic law in Afghanistan.

"Afghanistan is an independent and sovereign country. We have
an Islamic system of justice and Osama can be tried in the
presence of an international monitoring team provided we get some
evidence against him," he said.

U.S. consul general to Pakistan John Bennett said on Tuesday
the trial in the Netherlands of two Libyans accused of bombing a
Pan American Airways jet over Lockerbie, Scotland, in 1998 was a
possible formula for Osama's trial.