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Omar Safe, Bin Laden's Whereabouts Unknown

Former Taliban chief representative Mullah Abdul Salam Zaeef said here Wednesday that their supreme leader Mullah Omar was safe and sound after US bombing on the southern Afghan city of Kandahar, according to the Afghan Islamic Press (AIP).


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Former Taliban chief representative Mullah Abdul Salam Zaeef said here Wednesday that their supreme leader Mullah Omar was safe and sound after US bombing on the southern Afghan city of Kandahar, according to the Afghan Islamic Press (AIP).

Zaeef denied an early report that US warplanes bombed a compound housing senior leaders of the Taliban militia and Osama bin Laden's al-Qaeda network, saying "the building was just residence of a local citizen, but not a center of Taliban or al-Qaeda."

He said Saudi-born Osama bin Laden, the prime target of the US military action, was not in the areas controlled by the Taliban militia and he had no clue to his whereabouts.






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