Jackson says no plan to travel to Afghanistan

Josey1

Friday, September 28 1:08 AM SGT Jackson says no plan to travel to AfghanistanWASHINGTON, Sept 27 - Jesse Jackson, the US civil rights leader, said Thursday he had no plan to travel to Afghanistan on a peace mission to the ruling Taliban.Speaking to journalists here, the former presidential hopeful said: "I do not want to go. I have no plans to go."Earlier Thursday Jackson, 59 said he had been invited by the Taliban to act as mediator over US demands for the handover of Osama bin Laden, the US government's prime suspect in the September 11 terrorist onslaught on the United States.The Taliban have refused to surrender bin Laden, demanding that Washington produce evidence of the role of the Saudi-born exile and his al-Qaeda network in the attacks which left almost 7,000 people dead or missing.

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REBJr

fox news is now saying that taliban never asked anything other than "who is Jesse Jackson?"says he's still undecidedI take it to mean that he's waiting for someone to beg him to go save all of us from this terrible situation.dunno, I keep hearing "stay out the bushes"-Ralph

NEEDCOLD

I understand that there are Americans in jail over there for whatever stupid crimes against their religion. So it seems to me that because the prisoners are white, he wouldn't even fathom the thought of going there, whereas I believe that if there was one black person imprisoned, he'd be there in a flash. Well, maybe not a flash, but we'd hear about him doing something good for somebody, even though he has alterior motives.And of course he won't go over there. He doesn't know how to do anything for the U.S.A., just for himself and his own twisted ideas.