Taliban says bin Laden alive: Al Arabiya TV

[tocqueville]

15 minutes ago

DUBAI (Reuters) - Dubai-based Al Arabiya television on Tuesday quoted a Taliban official as saying al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden was alive and in good health.

The Arabic channel said its Pakistan bureau had received a call from the unnamed Taliban official a few days after a leaked French secret document said Saudi intelligence believed bin Laden died last month in Pakistan.

"The official said bin Laden was alive and that reports that he is ill are not true," said Bakr Atyani, Al Arabiya's Islamabad correspondent. "The Taliban checked with members who are close to al Qaeda that these reports are baseless."

Bin Laden and his deputy Ayman al-Zawahri are believed to be hiding in the border area between Afghanistan and Pakistan. He was last seen in a video statement aired to coincide with the November 2004 U.S. presidential elections.

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[BrainRants]

1. Bbbbut wait...it's still September

This wasn't supposed to make the news until October!

Rove must have his calendar screwed up...

[tocqueville]

2. I think the whole thing was a trick from the CIA/DGSE

now the rat is pointing his nose out of the cave...

[Kip Humphrey]

4. First, Pakistan withdraws troops from the northern provinces,

paving the way for a commando raid with little resistance other than a few local warlords.

Second, a report surfaces that Bin Laden is dead.

Third, Bin Laden refutes his own death with a new video tape before the election.

Fourth, Predators and satellites trace the courier of the tape back to a single village in the northern province of Pakistan.

Fifth, Commandos strike and Bush presents Bin Laden's head to a national television audience right before the election.


Karl Rove's October surprise?

[Yupster]

12. I think if he really could do that

he would have done it in October 2004. That was a lot more important to him than congressional elections.

[mom cat]

7. Actually, its the "new tape" of OBL that is due in late Oct, or

early Nov!

[liberal N proud]

3. Of course he is, the bu$h regime still needs him this fall

And again in 2 years.

[maxrandb]

5. He's alive and well, and living in the Caribbean n/t

[Sensitivity]

9. Are you violating the NDA on that?

[wholetruth00]

6. They are waiting to just before November to "capture" Osama.

This stuff is so transparent, just like oil prices.

[ConcernedCanuk]

8. Watch out, - the PNACers need another 911 to stay in power

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So they can say "We told You so"

Without a monumental crisis,

PNAC is a dead dream.

"watch out"!!

[OKNancy]

10. kick

[DoYouEverWonder]

11. Last seen with Elvis

shopping at Walmart.