Osama Bin Laden CAPTURED in Pakistan

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Description: A Taliban commander in Afghanistan said al-Qaeda chief Osama bin Laden is alive and well, according to the transcript of a video provided by a U.S.-based organization that monitors extremist Web sites. ``He is extremely healthy and active,'' Mansour Dadullah said, according to the video's English-language subtitles. The clip was dated June 15, the IntelCenter in Alexandria, Virginia, said today. Since bin Laden escaped U.S. and Afghan forces at the battle of Tora Bora in eastern Afghanistan in December 2001, there have been no confirmed sightings of him. He has released several video and audio tapes from his presumed hiding places on the mountainous border between Pakistan and Afghanistan. The Bush administration said in its latest National Intelligence Estimate last month that al-Qaeda, the group that carried out the Sept. 11 attacks on the U.S., is regaining strength in Pakistan and honing its tactics in Iraq. The State Department is offering as much as $25 million for information leading to bin Laden's capture. Dadullah, whose brother Mullah Dadullah was a top commander in the Taliban until he was killed this year, said he was contacted by bin Laden. ``I received a message from him in which he advised me, `I must follow Mullah Dadullah and continue the same activities so that the mujahedeen may not weaken.' '' Death Speculation ``There's a very high percentage chance'' that bin Laden is dead, Will Geddes, managing director of the London-based International Corporate Protection security company, said in a telephone interview today. Even if bin Laden is alive, it may not be a ``massive blow'' to the U.S., Geddes said. ``Al-Qaeda is no longer one man leading an international army.'' The organization has become a ``generic umbrella name,'' he said. L'Est Republicain newspaper reported in September that Saudi Arabian intelligence officials believe Saudi-born bin Laden died from a fever in a remote region of Pakistan. The French newspaper cited a report from France's DGSE external intelligence agency. Saudi Arabia and Western governments, including France and the U.S., cast doubt on the report.