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Al-Jazeera: Got Bin Laden tape in Pakistan
The Arabic television channel Al-Jazeera said Saturday that it received the latest video taped message from al-Qaida leader Osama bin Laden at its offices in the Pakistani capital.
The tape was dropped off at the gate of the station's office in an envelope on Friday, just hours before it aired, said Ahmad Muaffaq Zaidan, Al-Jazeera's bureau chief in Pakistan.
"We received it in Pakistan ... Somebody dropped it yesterday at the gate," Zaidan told The Associated Press. "The guard brought it to me along with other mail. It was in an envelope, I opened it and it was a big scoop."
Zaidan said he transmitted the tape to Al-Jazeera's headquarters in the Gulf nation of Qatar immediately.
Bin Laden and his No. 2, Egyptian surgeon Ayman al-Zawahri, are both believed to be hiding in the mountains that straddle the Afghan-Pakistan border, though there has been no hard evidence of their whereabouts for more than three years.
Zaidan said the fact the tape was received by the station here did not necessarily mean that the terror masterminds were in the area.
"It is very difficult to judge," Zaidan said. |
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