Saudi Intelligence Chief Prince “Turki [al Faisal] interpreted [Taliban leader Mullah Mohammed] Omar’s words as a clear decision to force bin Laden out of Afghanistan. ‘I repeated to Sheikh Mullah Omar,’ Turki recalled [in a December 10, 2001, interview on Nightline]: ‘ *Do you agree that you’re going to hand over this fellow and that the only thing required is for us to sit down together and work out the modalities?* And he said, *Assure the king [Fahd] and the crown prince [Abdullah] that this is my view.* ‘ ”
– Steve Coll, Ghost Wars, Page 401