C05453688 _ _ _ __ _ _ _ __ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ b 1 _ _ _ _ _ _ __ b 3 EO 12958 1 4 c 25Yrs - - - - - - - E O 12958 3 5 c I SENIOR EXECUTIVE INTELLIGENCE BRIEF 23 March 2001 Afghanistan Taliban Holding Firm Oil Bin La for No -- The Taliban leadership is allowing Usama Bin Ladin to remain in Afghanistan despite _UN sanctions aimed at persuading the group to give him up It is -doing so because it needs Bin Ladin's money and fighters to wage its civil war and because Taliban leaders say an ethnic Pashtun tribal code requires them to protect guests I · CIA analys-tsjudg that Taliban leaders would surrender Bin Ladin only after a Taliban victory in Afghanistan· and in exchange for diplomatic recognition and reconstruction aid The Taliban would seek to deny engaging in a deal however to save face and to avoid a backlash from its Afghan and Pakistani supporters and from fi rabs s pathetic to Bin Ladin · APPROVED FOR RELEASEL DATE 25-April-2012