Give me a break, Osama practically controlled the Taliban, Al-Quaeda leads the Taliban insurgency because the taliban were so weak. They offered to turn him to a third-party country like Yemen where he would have "miraculously" been found innocent or would have escaped.

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"...Follow the crystal star to the pyre of the flame; there exists the dwelling of the spreading fire. The heart of this life rests upon the fate of that place, and what begins there sends a contagion to the rest of the universe.
As long as the fire burns we shall never be free..." (The Shadows of Yavara, Final Reclamation)