Taliban official: Bin Laden is alive (interview aired on UK Channel 4)

[maddezmom]

LONDON - A senior Taliban commander says Osama bin Laden is alive and in contact with leaders of Afghanistan's Taliban insurgents, according to an interview aired on British television.

Mullah Dadullah said he had not met bin Laden since the fall of the Taliban regime after the U.S.-led invasion of Afghanistan in 2001, but said "we know he's 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 said in an interview broadcast Wednesday by Channel 4 News.

The authenticity of the information could not be confirmed. Channel 4 did not say how it had obtained the footage, and it was not known when or where Dadullah made the comments, which were translated into English.

more: http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070301/ap_on_re_eu/britain_bin_laden

We'll we all knew it was only a matter of time before we'd be hearing about Osama bin fogotten.


link to Channel 4: http://www.channel4.com/news/special-reports/special-reports-storypage.jsp?id=4705

[eridani]

1. Robert Fisk thinks he's alive, but other experts disagree

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_oet&address=358x3185

Still wondering how voice morphing technology might be used in situations like this.

[issac82_82]

10. Not a shock and awe.

Bin Laden was nothing more than a tool for Bush to push globalization. Bush had much bigger things(in his warped immagination) to worry about.

[aquart]

2. Lots of cockroaches are alive.

Big deal.

[wakeme2008]

3. While Bush will not go after him

he, in theory, still has a multi-million bounty on his head so I am sure he is very careful...

[ClintonTyree]

4. Sorry about the levity here.....

but Mullah DaDullah? :rofl: He sounds like he should be a Bush staff member. I wonder what sort of nickname Bush would give him? :rofl:

[maddezmom]

5. knowing * and his problem with more than one syllable

MUD :evilgrin:

[brooklynite]

6. CNN - Taliban: Suicide army is ready

KABUL, Afghanistan (CNN) -- The Taliban's top military commander said his forces have assembled a hundreds-strong army of suicide attackers poised for a spring offensive against U.S.-led troops in Afghanistan.

http://www.cnn.com/2007/WORLD/asiapcf/03/01/taliban.interview/index.html

Good thing our military is fully staffed and has all the equipment it needs...

[Cass]

7. Its a god damned disgrace that OBL is still unaccounted for.

They blamed him for 9/11 and they blamed the Taliban for enabling and supporting him, yet 5 1/2 years later OBL is free and the Taliban is staging a comeback. This so-called War on Terror is an unmitigated failure. They captured and killed the president of a sovereign nation that had absolutely nothing to do with 9/11 and they consider that a WOT success. They might as well spit on the graves of the 9/11 victims.

Sorry, I know I'm preaching to the choir here but this pisses me off.

[Eugene]

8. Reuters: Afghan Taliban says sending fighters to Iraq-TV

Afghan Taliban says sending fighters to Iraq-TV
02 Mar 2007 20:26:37 GMT
Source: Reuters

DUBAI, March 2 (Reuters) - A senior Taliban commander said in remarks broadcast
on Friday that the Afghan Islamist group was sending fighters to Iraq to support
anti-U.S. insurgents.

"Whenever there is a chance the (Afghanistan-based holy fighters) mujahideen
travel to Iraq and the opposite is also true," Mullah Dadullah told Al Jazeera
television in an interview.

"We have very strong relations with the mujahideen in Iraq. The mujahideen stay
in Iraq for a month for example then they come here," he added in remarks dubbed
in Arabic. "We also share intelligence."

"Travel from and to Iraq is at a peak currently ... if any mujahid wants to carry
out an operation in Iraq he can travel."

-snip-

Full article: http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/L02540733.htm

[Pastiche423]

9. OBL has been dead since December 2001