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ISLAMABAD (AFP) - The Afghan Taliban on Friday dismissed as a fabrication a statment by Osama bin Laden broadcast by Qatar television in which the Saudi dissident vowed to free an Egyptian Islamist jailed in the U.S.
Taliban information minister, Maulvi Qudratullah Jamal, issued the denial in a statement released through the Pakistan-based Afghan Islamic Press news service. Jamal said Friday's broadcast on Qatar's Satellite TV channel Al-Jazeera concerning bin Laden was a "fabrication and a fake." He said the video could have been made up from old material dating back to the 1979-89 anti-Soviet jihad (struggle) in Afghanistan. The channel broadcast a video recording of bin Laden's meeting with a group of Islamists, without giving a date or place for the meeting. "We promise to work with all our power to free our brother, Sheikh Omar Abdel Rahman, and all our prisoners in America, Egypt and Riyadh," bin Laden said in the video recording. Jamal said bin Laden was living in Afghanistan without any communications equipment and is not allowed to engage in any activity against any other country from Afghan soil. |
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