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To: Dealer who wrote (46678)	1/18/2002 9:38:53 PM
From: stockman_scott	Respond to of 65232

U.S.: Evidence bin Laden is alive msnbc.com U.S.: Evidence bin Laden is alive Materials also indicate plans for more attacks on America Jan. 18 — U.S. intelligence has evidence that Osama bin Laden survived the rout of the Taliban and the destruction of many of his camps and caves, U.S. officials said Friday. Other U.S. officials said material seized in Afghanistan included signs that bin Laden’s al-Qaida terrorist network was plotting new attacks inside the United States. OFFICIALS WHO SPOKE to the Associated Press on condition of anonymity would not describe the evidence that bin Laden was still alive, a contention that has been advanced consistently by Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld. Some of the information gathered in Afghanistan has led U.S. officials to believe that bin Laden, the Saudi-born militant suspected of masterminding the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks in the United States, was still in either Afghanistan or Pakistan, officials told Reuters separately. The information suggested that the Taliban’s leader, Mullah Mohammed Omar, also remained in Afghanistan, the officials said, cautioning that they still could not be certain. “We do not know the location of bin Laden,” Army Gen. Tommy Franks, commander of the U.S. military campaign in Afghanistan, told reporters Friday in Tampa, Fla. Defense Department officials said surveillance aircraft flying over Afghanistan and U.S. troops on the ground were watching numerous areas of the country in hope of finding bin Laden and other leaders of al-Qaida and the Taliban. Navy ships and patrol planes, meanwhile, were monitoring the waters off Pakistan’s coast in case they tried to slip away by sea. A U.S. intelligence official told Reuters that bin Laden was a difficult target because of “very high security consciousness” that went beyond standard tactics of moving frequently. Many people were believed to be helping bin Laden elude his U.S. and Afghan hunters, the official said. “His personal needs are being met in ways that he doesn’t have to go down to the corner grocery store or whatever the Afghan equivalent would be,” he said. U.S.: BIN LADEN LIVES U.S. officials specifically dismissed comments by Pakistan’s president, Gen. Pervez Musharraf, that bin Laden had probably died. In interviews with CNN and Newsweek, Musharraf repeated his belief that bin Laden was dead because he had a kidney disease and could not have received adequate treatment since the United States began its military assault in Afghanistan last October. Musharraf did not indicate whether he had intelligence reports to back up his suspicions, telling Newsweek that he had reached his conclusion because bin Laden was “not visible anywhere.” A senior U.S. official told NBC News on condition of anonymity Friday that if bin Laden had died, it was “news to us,” while another U.S. official told NBC’s Robert Windrem that there was no evidence that bin Laden had ever any kidney ailment other than a bout with kidney stones. Other officials described bin Laden as a hypochondriac who had complained of numerous illnesses for many years. Asked about the CNN report, Franks said he had seen no intelligence that would make it possible for him to comment beyond his standard observation that bin Laden was either “alive or dead.” ................