Bin Laden planned Cheney attack and prepares new Iraq strikes

Parts of the interview were broadcast on Al-Jazeera`s English and Arabic satellite TV channels and were posted on the stations` Web sites. Al-Jazeera, which is based in Qatar, said it planned to show the entire interview later Wednesday, but the interview had still not aired by midnight.

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The interview was not the first time in recent months that Dadullah has said bin Laden is alive. On March 1, London television Channel 4 aired an interview in which he said the al-Qaida leader was in contact with Taliban officers. The station did not say when the tape was made.

U.S. officials have said they assume bin Laden is alive but do not have proof one way or the other. He is assumed to be in a rugged area of Pakistan, where remnants of the Taliban are living while mounting attacks inside neighboring Afghanistan.

U.S.-led forces drove the head of the terror network from his Afghanistan haven in late 2001 by overthrowing the hard-line Taliban government after al-Qaida was blamed for the Sept. 11 attacks, the AP reports.

The Taliban were toppled in 2001 by a U.S.-led coalition for refusing to hand over leaders of al Qaeda after the group's Sept. 11 attacks on U.S. cities.

Dadullah gave no further details about the role bin Laden was playing in operations in the two countries where the United States deploys troops.

A senior Afghan security official had said on Tuesday Afghan and NATO troops had surrounded more than 200 Taliban in the southern province of Uruzgan and Dadullah might be among them.

But NATO forces were not involved in the operation, a NATO spokeswoman said on Wednesday, and an Afghan politician from the region said he doubted that Dadullah had been surrounded, Reuters reports.

Source: agencies

Prepared by Alexander Timoshik
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