Bin Laden, Mullah Omar alive and healthy. 15/06/2005. ABC News Online

Bin Laden, Mullah Omar alive and healthy. 15/06/2005. ABC News Online:

"Al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden and Taliban chief Mullah Mohammad Omar are safe and healthy, a former Taliban commander said.

Three-and-half years after a US-led military offensive toppled the fundamentalist Taliban regime for sheltering bin Laden, the alleged architect of the 9/11 attacks remains free as does Mullah Omar.

Commander Mullah Akhtar Usmani told private Geo TV in an interview at an undisclosed site that he cannot disclose their whereabouts.

'We hear his voice. I can vouch that Mullah Omar is alive and commanding the Taliban,' he said.

As for bin Laden, the most wanted suspect in connection with the September 11, 2001 attacks in the United States, the former Taliban commander said, 'by the grace of God, he is in good health'."