Bin Laden 'alive and in Afghanistan' | The World | The Australian

Bin Laden 'alive and in Afghanistan' | The World | The Australian: "September 29, 2006
PAKISTAN has intelligence suggesting Osama bin Laden is hiding in the eastern Afghanistan province of Kunar, possibly with the help of an Afghan warlord, President Pervez Musharraf said, dismissing a French intelligence report that the al-Qa'ida leader had died of typhoid.

'It's not a hunch,' General Musharraf said. 'Kunar province borders on Bajaur Agency. We know there are some pockets of al-Qa'ida in Bajaur Agency. We have set a good intelligence organisation. We have moved some army elements. We did strike them twice there. We located and killed a number ofthem.'

Interviewed at his hotel in New York, General Musharraf said he believed that bin Laden was in Afghanistan, and suggested a possible link with Afghan warlord Gulbuddin Hekmatyar."