text: Rewind: Awlaki defends Taliban in 2001 Washington Post live chat on Ramadan | PJ Tatler
  No doubt they were shocked, SHOCKED! to find that he was an extremist
  September 30, 2011 - 10:09 am
  Alexandria, Va.:I saw your video on the Washington Post website this morning. Perhaps I am too biased as an American, but just what other avenues should or could the US have tried as opposed to as you put it – 'rushing into this war'?Also, like we say 'Merry Christmas', is there any special greeting Muslims use during Ramadan?	Imam Anwar Al-Awlaki: The Taliban repeatedly said: show us the evidence and we will turn over whoever is guilty with the crime. The US should have given them the benefit of the doubt. Also our government could have dealt with the terrorist attacks as a crime against America rather than a war against America. So the guilty would be tried and only them would be punished rather than bombing an already destroyed country. I do not restrict myself to US media. I check out Aljazeerah and European media such as the BBC. I am seeing something that you are not seeing because of the one-sidedness of the US media. I see the carnage of Afghanistan. I see the innocent civilian deaths. That is why my opinion is different.
  1. Chipper	You'd think it'd be a secret agonizing shame of the government bureaucrats and the journalists who reached out to Awlaki and other jihadists as experts on Muslim sensibilities and bridge builders to the Muslim community knowing they'd been repeatedly duped. They do know, they do realize it, don't they?