President Bush stated that his demands were not open to negotiation or discussion.

Obviously the Taliban refused, but offered to review their attitude if concrete evidence of al-Qaida's guilt were given. None was offered. They then offered to try bin Laden in an Islamic court but this did not satisfy the Americans. Later on, as the likelihood of military actions became imminent, the Taliban offered to extradite bin Laden to a neutral nation. This did not satisfy the Americans either. Moderates within the Taliban movement allegedly met with American embassy officials in Pakistan in mid-October. They hoped to work out a way to convince Mullah Muhammed Omar to hand bin Laden to the US, and avoid the impending retaliation.

President Bush was not convinced. It was well known that bin Laden's fundamentalist Muslim organisation, al-Qaida, attracted men who believed in the Jihad, the Holy War against the west, and especially against the USA. Most of the al-Qaida members came from Muslim countries, but some were western Muslim converts from other countries, including the US and Great Britain. The great majority of these fighters were trained in the al-Qaida camps in Afghanistan.

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