TheNation Monitoring WASHINGTON - The Taliban have said that their movement had no role in the 9/11 terror attacks and accused the United States of using the incident to invade Afghanistan where they have killed tens of thousands of innocent Afghans, reports USA Today on Sunday. In a defiant statement emailed to media, the Taliban accused the US of using the Sept 11 attacks as a pretext to invade Afghanistan. It said the international community was responsible for killing thousands of Afghans during the invasion and ensuing occupation of the country. Each year, 9/11 reminds the Afghans of an event in which they had no role whatsoever, the Taliban said. American colonialism has shed the blood of tens of thousands of miserable and innocent Afghans. The Talibans statement says the Afghan people have an endless stamina for a long war and could rise up as a nation to send the Americans to the dustbin of history. It will remain a permanent stigma on the face of the Western democracy that America and her allies martyred tens of thousands of Muslims under the pretext of this ambiguous and murky event, the statement says, referring to 9/11. Meanwhile, the Taliban government in Afghanistan offered to present Osama bin Laden for a trial long before the 9/11 attacks, but the US government showed no interest, Al Jazeera-TV reported on Sunday, quoting a senior aide to Taliban leader Mullah Omar. In an exclusive interview, Wakil Ahmad Muttawakil, Talibans last foreign minister, told Al Jazeera that the Taliban government, which then controlled Afghanistan, made several proposals to the United States to present the Al-Qaeda leader for trial for his involvement in plots targeting US facilities during the 1990s. Even before the [9/11] attacks, our Islamic Emirate had tried - through various proposals - to resolve the Osama issue. One such proposal was to set up a three-nation court, or something under the supervision of the Organisation of the Islamic Conference, Muttawakil said. But the US showed no interest in it. They kept demanding we hand him over, but we had no relations with the US, no agreement of any sort. They did not recognise our govt. There was no independent confirmation of Muttawakils claims. The Taliban considered the OIC, a Saudi Arabia-based organisation representing 56 Muslim nations, a 'neutral international organization, he said.Al Jazeera says it contacted the OIC regarding the claims, but that nobody was available for comment. The US had no direct diplomatic relations with the Taliban, which controlled most of Afghanistan between 1996 and 2001. But, Muttawakil said, the Talibans proposals were relayed indirectly to Washington through such channels as the American embassy in Pakistan or the informal Taliban office for the UN in New York.