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@Fazn8me It was in the waning days of November 2001 that Taliban leaders began to reach out to Hamid Karzai, who would soon become the interim president of Afghanistan: They wanted to make a deal.
“The Taliban were completely defeated, they had no demands, except amnesty,” recalled Barnett Rubin,
Monday, Nov. 19, 2001
Following is the text of Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld's Pentagon briefing on the status of the military campaign in Afghanistan.
QUESTION: Mr. Secretary, we're getting reports that Mullah Mohammed Omar is trying to negotiate a surrender from Kandahar--surrender for himself, the Taliban, including those now being encircled by Northern Alliance forces at Kunduz. Is that true? And if so, what are the terms of the surrender the United States will accept?
RUMSFELD: The United States is not inclined to negotiate surrenders, nor are we in a position with relatively small numbers of forces on the ground to accept prisoners.
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