3 This history is recounted in a book the author is completing, entitled Fraud and Apocalypse: the Backstory of George Bush's War on Terrorism. Every detail of the story is documented.
4 The definitive source is the memoir of Kabir Mohabbat, the Afghan-American courier sent by the State Department to deliver the sequential refusals. See Delivering Osama: The Story of America's Secret Envoy, by Kabir Mohabbat and Leah McInnis, Berlin: First Draft Publishing,2020. Dozens of other references to the episode appear in the periodical literature. See, for example, "How Bush Was Offered bin Laden and Blew It," by Jeffrey St. Clair and Alexander Cockburn, Counterpunch, November 1, 2004, and "Bush Rejects Taliban Offer to Hand bin Laden Over," UK Guardian Unlimited, October 14, 2001.
5 See "Report Says Hussein Was Open to Exile Before 2003 Invasion," by Karen DeYoung and Michael Abramovitz, Washington Post, September 27, 2007. See also, "Saddam ready to go into exile; Diplomats' proposal in a few days," anon. Dawn, (a Pakistani English language newspaper), January 17, 2003.
6 See Andrew Bacevich, America's War for the Greater Middle East, New York, Random House, 2016,p. 231.
7 See the Iraq Business News website at www.iraq-businessnews.com/list-of-international-oil-companies, and Ga ry Vogler, Iraq and the Politics of Oil, Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2017. p.259
8 See, Anand Gopal, No Good Men Among the Living , New York: Picador, 2014. p 47.
9 S ee " The Contradiction That Doomed America's Mission in Afghanistan," by Max Fisher, New York Times, May 9, 2021
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