re: #199 Timothy Watson

He supported the mujaheddin back in the ’80s. Don’t know if he ever expressed any support specifically for the Taliban after they were created.

ocweekly.com
Check this out. As recently as Spring 2001, he was meeting with Taliban leaders and praising them while they harbored OBL who was one of the world’s most wanted men even pre 9-11.

“On April 11, 2001, Rohrabacher traveled with [Khaled] Saffuri and others from Washington, D.C. to meet in Qatar with Taliban leader Mullah Wakil Ahmed Muttawakil. The regime that was protecting bin Laden from U.S. intelligence operations wanted Rohrabacher to help increase U.S. aid to it, at the time already more than $100 million annually. Rohrabacher emerged from those meetings to tell Middle East news media that the meeting had been “frank and open” and that the Taliban leaders were “thoughtful and inquisitive” as well as “flexible.”