About Osama bin Laden

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Probe into 'Bin Laden death' leak

President Jacques Chirac has ordered an inquiry into the leak of a French secret service memo claiming that Osama Bin Laden had died.
Mr Chirac told reporters he was surprised the memo had been leaked, and refused to comment on the claim itself.

A French newspaper quoted a document as saying the Saudi secret services were convinced the al-Qaeda leader had died of typhoid in Pakistan in late August.

Officials in Pakistan and the US said they could not confirm the account.

Saudi-born Bin Laden was based in Afghanistan until the Taleban government there was overthrown by US-backed forces in 2001 after the 9/11 attacks.

Since then, US and Pakistani officials have regularly said they believe he is hiding in the lawless border area between Afghanistan and Pakistan.

His last videotaped message was released in late 2004, but several audio tapes have been released this year - the last at the end of June, in which Bin Laden praised Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, the leader of al-Qaeda in Iraq, who was killed in an American air strike.

Internal organs paralysed

In its report, French regional daily L'Est Republicain said it had obtained a copy of a DGSE foreign intelligence service report dated 21 September.

"According to a usually reliable source, the Saudi services are now convinced that Osama Bin Laden is dead," it read.

"The information gathered by the Saudis indicates that the head of al-Qaeda fell victim, while he was in Pakistan on August 23, 2006, to a very serious case of typhoid that led to a partial paralysis of his internal organs."

Mr Chirac said: "I am surprised that a confidential memo from the secret services has been published, therefore I've ordered the defence minister to start an inquiry.

"As far as the information itself is concerned, it's not confirmed in any way. Therefore I have no comment at all."

The Washington-based IntelCenter, which monitors terrorism communications, said it was not aware of any similar reports on the internet.

"We've seen nothing from any al-Qaeda messaging or other indicators that would point to the death of Osama Bin Laden," director Ben Venzke told the Associated Press news agency.

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baba ina chand dafe ezdevaj mikonan???

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LOOL
Ina az ghasd hey ezdevaj mikonan ke betunan tu un keshvar ( wherever it is )
Betunan saaken bashano zendegi konan baraye ye modaty..
Stupid idiots...

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But Pakistani and Saudi officials told ABC News today that they do not believe bin Laden is dead or near death and U.S. officials say they need proof before they buy into such rumors.






After all, in the five years since the Sept. 11 attacks, there have been several reports of bin Laden's demise.






"He has been reputed to have every disease or every medical condition known to science except pregnancy," Clarke said. "And all of that has turned out to be false."






Despite the prior reports of bin Laden's death, he kept churning out audiotapes that suggest he is still alive. The last time he was seen on video was in late 2004.






That may be why one senior American military official had this reaction to the latest reports of bin Laden's death, "Please, show me the body!"






Additionally, sources tell ABC News that because of the document's classification was the low-level "confidential," there may be no real merit to the claim.






"When you classify it 'confidential,' you really are talking about information that is not sensitive," Debat said. "Obviously, if it came from a very important source, it would be classified 'secret' or 'top secret.'"






Despite his own skepticism, Debat said the report of bin Laden's death deserves more investigation.






"They should be looking into it because it's the world's most wanted, and any piece of information on his whereabouts or his health is extremely relevant," Debat said.






But, he added, "In Pakistan at any given moment, there are hundreds and hundreds and hundreds of rumors about this that are ripe for being picked up by anybody — and sometimes it's a journalist, sometimes it's a diplomat."

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Pakistan cannot confirm bin Laden's death report

Pakistani officials said Saturday Pakistan has received no information from any foreign government that could corroborate a French newspaper report on al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden's death, local media reported.

A French daily reported Saturday that, according to a French secret service report, Saudi Arabia was convinced that Laden died of typhoid in Pakistan in late August.

"No government has shared any such information with us so far, which is the normal thing to do under such circumstances," a senior Pakistani government official said, according to the GeoTelevision. Enditem

Related: France unable to confirm report of bin Laden's death

PARIS, Sept. 23 (Xinhua) -- The report about terrorist group al-Qaida leader Osama bin Laden's death "cannot be confirmed," the French Defense Ministry said in a statement on Saturday.

French regional newspaper L'Est Republica in quoted a secret French intelligence report as saying that Saudi Arabia's secret service confirmed that bin Laden died on Aug. 23 and said President Jacques Chirac had been informed of the news.

Defense Minister Michele Alliot-Marie has ordered an investigation "to determine the source of this leak, which is a crime punishable by law," said the statement.

In Compiegne, north of Paris, Chirac also said the report "is in no way confirmed."

Chirac said he was "surprised" that the French newspaper had published an excerpt from a French secret service note relaying information from Saudi Arabia's intelligence service.

Al-Qaida was linked to several terrorist attacks, including the 1998 U.S. embassy bombings in Africa, a 2000 suicide bomb attack on a U.S. warship off Yemen, the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks in New York and Washington, and the 2004 Madrid train bombings. Enditem

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Doubts over bin Laden death

Uncertainty persisted over reports that al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden was very ill or even dead, with US and Pakistani officials saying they had seen no evidence to that end.

Reports in a French newspaper and the US newsweekly Time quoted Saudi sources as saying the terrorist mastermind had died or was very ill from a water borne disease, possibly typhoid.

But in Washington, a White House official told Deutsche Presse-Agentur (DPA) that the National Security Council had "no confirmation of the reports that he has died".

A US official told Fox broadcast news that he had also seen no evidence to suggest the al-Qaeda leader was dead. And a private US intelligence-gathering agency that often has bin Laden videos as quickly as al-Jazeera Arabic language broadcaster sent an e-mail to the media saying they had seen "no messaging or other indicators" that would point to bin Laden's death.

In Islamabad, Pakistani officials told local media that the government of Pakistan had no such information. Bin Laden is believed to be holed up in Pakistan along the border region with Afghanistan.

The initial report by the French regional daily L'Est Republicain said that a document drawn up by the French DGSE intelligence service alleged that the al-Qaeda leader died in August of typhoid.

French President Jacques Chirac confirmed the existence of the document when he told journalists in the city of Compiegne: "I am surprised that a confidential document by the DSGE was published."

He said he had asked the defence ministry to investigate the leak of the document and then added, "nothing at all confirms the information" in the DGSC note, which was dated September 21.

The Time magazine report online quoted a Saudi source as saying that Saudi officials had received "multiple credible reports" over previous weeks that bin Laden was seriously ill, and with a "high probability" was dead.

"This is not a rumour," Time quoted the source as saying. "He is very ill. He got a water-related sickness and it could be terminal. There are a lot of serious facts about things that have actually happened. There is a lot to it. But we don't have any concrete information to say that he is dead."

L'Est Republicain said it based its information about bin Laden's alleged death on the DGSE document, which was classified "defence secret", and reproduced what it claimed were verbatim extracts from it.

As cited in the story, the DGSE document reads in part: "According to a usually reliable source, the Saudi intelligence services are said to have acquired the information that Osama bin Laden is dead.

"The information gleaned by the Saudis indicates that the head of al-Qaeda was victim of a very strong attack of typhoid ... in Pakistan on August 23, 2006."

The document goes on to say that bin Laden's geographical isolation rendered all medical assistance impossible, and that the illness had caused a partial paralysis of his legs.

It also states that Saudi officials were waiting for more information, notably about where bin Laden was buried, to make an official announcement about his death.

According to the newspaper, the DGSE found the Saudi report sufficiently credible to have relayed it last Thursday to France's highest officials, including Chirac, Prime Minister Dominique de Villepin and Interior Minister Nicolas Sarkozy.

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عربستان خبر مرگ بن لادن را تاييد نكرد

عربستان سعودي اعلام كرد هيچ دليل و مدركي براي تاييد مرگ اسامه بن لادن ندارد.


به نقل از خبرگزاري فرانسه، سفارت عربستان سعودي در آمريكا با انتشار بيانيهاي اعلام كرد رياض هيچ دليل و مدركي در تاييد مرگ اسامه بن لادن رهبر تشكيلات القاعده ندارد.
مطبوعات و رسانهها پيش از اين اطلاعاتي درباره مرگ بن لادن منتشر كرده بودند.
سفارت عربستان در بيانيه خود افزود، اين اطلاعات تنها پيشفرضهايي است كه منتشر شده و هيچ منبع مستقلي نميتواند آنها را تاييد كند.
دستگاه اطلاعاتي فرانسه (مديريت امنيت خارجي)21 سپتامبر در يادداشتي كه بخشهايي از آن در روزنامه لست ريپابليكان منتشر شد، اعلام كرد دستگاه اطلاعاتي عربستان سعودي مطمئن است بن لادن 23 آگوست به خاطر ابتلا به حصبه مرده است.
ژاك شيراك رئيسجمهور فرانسه نيز ديروز اعلام كرد اطلاعاتي كه درباره مرگ بن لادن در روزنامههاي اين كشور منتشر شده، ناموثق است.
آفتاب شرپائو وزير كشور پاكستان نيز اعلام كرد اسلامآباد هيچ اطلاعاتي در اين باره ندارد.
همچنين كاندوليزا رايس وزير امور خارجه آمريكا در نيويورك اعلام كرد درباره مرگ بن لادن خبري ندارد

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Bin Laden death reports unconfirmed

Authorities in Saudi Arabia says there is no evidence to suggest Osama bin Laden has died.

Reports claim Saudi secret service agents knew the terror chief contracted a fatal case of typhoid in Pakistan.

A statement from the Saudi embassy in Washington read: "The kingdom of Saudi Arabia has no evidence to support recent media reports that Osama bin Laden is dead.

"Information that has been reported otherwise is purely speculative and cannot be independently verified."

America is also casting doubt on his fate.

A US intelligence official said: "We've heard these things before and have no reason to think this is any different."

Meanwhile, the Pakistani Ambassador to the US, Mahmud Ali Durrani, insists they are determined to track him down.

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بر گزارش ساندی تايمز حاکم شهر قندهار خبر داد که قرار است تورا بورا به يک منطقه توريستی تبديل شود و يک هتل لوکس ناظر بر مرکز اقامت بن لادن در آنجا ساخته شود. تورا بورا پناهگاهی است که با کمک آمريکا برای مجاهدين افغان در دوره اشغال شوروی سابق ساخته شد و اسامه بعد در همانجا ماند. تورا بورا بعد از حمله به افغانستان مکررا بمباران شده است. گل آقا شيرازی حاکم شهر که اين خبر را به ساندی تايمز داد گفت تورا بورا هم اکنون در جهان شهرت دارد ولی ما می خواهيم به خاطر توريسم مشهور شود نه تروريسم.
البته در اين راه يک مشکل "کوچک" هست: امنيت. مردم خود افغانستان امنيت ندارند، چگونه قرار است امنيت توريست ها حفظ شود؟

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Police seize Turkish Qaeda leader

ISTANBUL (Reuters) - Turkish police have detained a lawyer who admitted he was the leader of al Qaeda in Turkey, Anatolian News Agency reported on Saturday.



Nine other suspects were also held.

Police seized bomb-making material and a compact disc set to explode when inserted into a computer -- the first time Turkish police had got hold of such a device -- the state-run agency said.

They also found maps of an oil refinery owned by the Tupras group in the house, the agency said.

Police could not confirm the report.

CNN Turk said the leader was a 25-year-old lawyer and two of the suspects were also members of the Great Islamic Eastern Warriors Front (IBDA-C), Anatolian said.

That group claimed joint responsibility with al Qaeda for two bombings at Istanbul synagogues and attacks on a British consulate and the HSBC bank in November 2003, in which more than 60 people were killed.

IBDA-C, on the European Union's terrorist list, is made up of Sunni Muslims seeking to create an Islamic state in Turkey.

The police swoop in Istanbul, Ankara and the western province of Izmir came after a year-long investigation and was carried out at the end of November, when Pope Benedict was visiting Turkey, private television NTV reported.

But no plans or information were found to suggest an attack was planned against the Pope, whose historic trip to Turkey was his first official visit to a Muslim country and was seen as a bid to improve relations between Christians and Muslims.

NTV had earlier this month reported several al Qaeda-linked detentions during the Pope's visit, without giving details.

Mainly Muslim but secular Turkey has arrested several al Qaeda suspects in recent years.

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'Taleban law' blocked in Pakistan

Pakistan's Supreme Court has blocked a fresh attempt to enact a Taleban-style law to enforce Islamic morality in North West Frontier Province (NWFP).
The court instructed the provincial governor not to sign the bill, which is opposed by President Pervez Musharraf.

North West Frontier Province, which is governed by an alliance of religious parties sympathetic to the Taleban, passed the legislation last month.

Last year a similar bill was declared unconstitutional by the Supreme Court.

The federal government's decision to go to the court exposes their claims that they believe in democracy

Asif Iqbal Daudzai,
NWFP information minister

President Musharraf, who says he wants Pakistan to espouse an enlightened, moderate form of Islam, has denounced the bill as fundamental breach of human rights.

Correspondents say it is almost unheard of for the same bill passed by a provincial assembly to be challenged twice in the courts by the federal government.

'Surprised'

The Supreme Court ordered the NWFP governor not to sign the Hisba (Accountability) bill into law until the case had been decided.


President Musharraf says the bill breaches human rights

It said it would take up the matter again in the third week of January, when the NWFP government is to be given a chance to defend the bill.

The ruling came after a petition from President Musharraf, Attorney General Makhdoom Ali Khan said.

NWFP Information Minister Asif Iqbal Daudzai, a member of the ruling alliance of religious parties, accused the government of being undemocratic.

"We are really surprised. We drafted the bill in light of the Supreme Court's directives," he told Reuters news agency.

"The federal government's decision to go to the court exposes their claims that they believe in democracy."

The bill adopted by the NWFP assembly last month was a watered-down version of the legislation rejected by the Supreme Court last year, again after a petition from the president.

The key difference between the bills is that the proposed department to be set up to enforce morality will not have its own police force.

But it would, however, be able to requisition police "to promote virtue and prevent vice".

'Talebanisation' fears

The plan is reminiscent of the infamous Department for the Prevention of Vice and Promotion of Virtue, set up by Afghanistan's former Taleban rulers.

It became a focus of criticism by human rights organisations.

Religious police would patrol the streets in Afghanistan, forcing women to adhere to a strict dress code and men to pray and grow their beards, among other things.

Observers say the battle in the courts reflects a struggle between moderates and conservatives over the direction of Pakistan.

Two of the country's four provinces are governed by the six-party Islamic alliance, the Muttahida Majlis-e Amal (MMA).

The BBC's Barbara Plett in Islamabad says President Musharraf has had a tacit alliance with the Islamic parties but he has become increasingly critical of them.

His recent support for amendments to hardline Islamic laws on rape despite their strenuous objections prompted some analysts to think he might keep quiet about the Hisba bill as a trade-off.

The fact that he has not, our correspondent says, will only fuel speculation that he is seeking to replace the Islamists with more moderate allies.

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ملاعمر طالبان در پاسخ يک سوال کتبی که توسط رويترز به او داده شده بود، گفت 5 سال است بن لادن را نديده است و تلاش هم نکرده اين کار را بکند. "اما برای سلامتی او دعا ميکنم".
سوال و جواب از طريق سخنگوی ملاعمر، محمد حنيف صورت گرفته است.
دولت کرزای با پشتيبانی سفارت آمريکا و نيروهای آمريکا تا به حال چندين بار تلاش کرده با جنگجويان طالبان به توافق برسد و آن ها را به حکومت دعوت کرده است. اما طالبان ها نپذيرفته اند. گروه های اسلامی در مقابل عمليات مستقيم نظامی آمريکا عقب نشينی می کنند و سپس به صورت چريک های اسلامی بر ميگردند. تاکنون افغانستان و عراق به اين صورت به خون کشيده شده است و اکنون پيش بينی کرده اند که سومالی نيز که مستقيم زير حمله نيروی هوايی آمريکا با پشتيبانی ارتش اتيوپی قرار گرفت به همان سرنوشت دچار شود.

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Osama bin Laden is alive: Taliban leader

LONDON: Al-Qaida leader Osama bin Laden is alive and is in touch with Taliban leaders in Afghanistan, a senior Taliban commander has said.

Mullah Dadullah said it was not possible to meet the Al-Qaida leader, who is believed to be hiding near the Afghan border in northwest Pakistan.

"It is hard for anyone to meet Bin Laden himself now, but we know he is still alive. He's not yet martyred. Such information would be easy to get -- his comrades stand shoulder to shoulder with us. They keep us informed," Dadullah told a British Channel.
"Only his comrades see him. We exchange messages with each other to share plans," he said adding "we are in touch with his colleagues and we fight together".

Dadullah also warned that British troops in Afghanistan face a fierce onslaught from his fighters and said thousands of his recruits are ready to become suicide bombers.

Britain has announced that an extra 1,400 British troops will be sent to Afghanistan to fight the Taliban.