So when were the Taliban defeated exactly?

This must stick in the craw of all the Republican Christian Bushites out there. Those 'nasty, dhimmi-fied, evil' Europeans are condemning the Afghan regime that is looking to pass a death sentence on an Afghani convert to Christianity. Is the Bush administration doing the same? Is it hell.

The State Department, however, did not urge the U.S. ally in the war against terrorism to terminate the trial. Officials said the Bush administration did not want to interfere with Afghanistan's sovereignty.