Bin Laden Free To Live In Peace
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Courtesy Of: YouTube.com
From: World News with Charles Gibson
Brian Ross, reporting
September 05, 2006
RunTime: 03:01

ABC World News Tonight, reports that a new "Peace Deal" has been reached between pro-Taliban fighters in Waziristan [a North Pakistani region, which borders Afghanistan] and Al-Qaeda, with the Pakistani government.

Major General Shaukat Khan, Press Secretary to Pakistan's President, Pervez Musharraf, informed ABC News that [if found, Osama Bin Laden & the Taliban], WILL NOT be taken into custody, as long as they promise to behave and live like peaceful citizens.

"No, as long as one is being like a peacful citizen, one would not be taken into custody. One has to stay like a peaceful citizen, and not allowed to participate in any terrorist activity," stated General Shaukat Khan.

"The surprising announcement comes as Pakistani Army officials announced they were pulling their troops out of the North Waziristan region as part of a 'peace deal' with the Taliban," reported ABC.

Pakistan will also return captured Taliban prisoners and weapons it seized during this conflict. [1]

Earlier today in a speech on the Global War on Terror which he gave in Washington, D.C. to the Military Officers Association of America, President Bush mentioned Pakistan's help in working together,

"To stop the world's most dangerous men from getting their hands on the world's most dangerous weapons."

And,

"Working with Great Britain and Pakistan and other nations, the United States shut down the worlds most dangerous nuclear trading cartel, the AQ Khan network."

"This network had supplied Iran and Libya and North Korea with equipment and know-how that advanced their efforts to obtain nuclear weapons."

The President also stated,

"We're working with friends and allies to deny the terrorists the enclaves they seek to establish in ungoverned areas across the world." [2]


Sources:

1. YouTube Video of the Pakistani "Peace Deal":
http://youtube.com/watch?v=jHa4Q2rqqQg&eurl=


2. President Discusses Global War on Terror:
http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2006/09/20060905-4.html