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Osama Bin Laden offers to leave Afghanistan

Saudi dissident Osama Bin Laden has offered to leave his refuge in Afghanistan if the Taliban regime helped him reach the place of his choice.

The Afghan Islamic Press has said that Bin Laden had written a letter to the Taliban militia in this connection. "I can reveal the name of the place to one or two people in the Islamic emirate of Afghanisation which should not give out this secret to anyone else," he said in the letter.

A spokesman said the Taliban would send a reply to Bin Laden within a few days after holding consultations.

The Taliban has been under intense pressure from the United States to hand over Bin Laden for trial on the charge of masterminding the bombing of two American embassies in Africa, killing 224 people.

So far, the Taliban has resisted the American pressure, which even led to US Cruise missile attacks on suspected terrorist training camps set up in Afghanistan by Bin Laden.

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