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Bin Laden Alive and Well, Says Al Qaeda Spokesman
Tuesday, July 9, 2002
(8:44 PM ET)
Reuters

"Our military and intelligence networks are assessing and monitoring new U.S. targets that we will strike in a period of time which is not long," bu Ghaith said.

DUBAI -- Reuters
A man claiming to be a spokesman for the al Qaeda network told an Arab television station on Wednesday Osama bin Laden and Taliban leader Mullah Omar were alive and well but gave no clue as to their whereabouts.

The man, identified by the alias Abu Laith al-Libi, told the Middle East Broadcasting Center by telephone that bin Laden, Washington's main suspect in the September 11 attacks on the United States, and his top lieutenants were in good health.

"Bin Laden, may God keep him safe, Dr. Ayman Zawahri and Sheikh Sulaiman bu Ghaith, all of them are in good health," said the man, whose alias indicates he is of a Libyan origin.

"And we, the fighters of the holy war, in general are hoping to enter the next phase, which we in the military call the gang war phase," he said.
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