Clinton Doesn’t Say If Taliban Should Be on Terror List

Days after deciding to blacklist an insurgent group linked to the Taliban and responsible for some of the deadliest attacks in Afghanistan, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton declined to say whether she also would brand the Taliban a foreign terrorist organization.

Asked in an interview yesterday with Bloomberg Radio if the Taliban -- whose government gave sanctuary to Osama bin Laden and his al-Qaeda terror network before the 2001 U.S. military actions -- should be blacklisted, Clinton didn’t directly answer.