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A Taliban official told the Dubai-based Al Arabiya television station on Tuesday that Osama Bin Laden is alive and in good health.
"The official said Bin Laden was alive and that reports that he is ill are not true," said Bakr Atyani, Al Arabiya's Islamabad correspondent. "The Taliban checked with members who are close to Al Qaeda that these reports are baseless."
Last week a report in French regional daily L'Est Republicain quoted a document from the DGSE foreign intelligence service, saying the Saudi secret services were convinced Bin Laden had died of typhoid.
Saudi Arabia said on Sunday that it had no evidence that Bin Laden was dead. French Foreign Minister Philippe Douste-Blazy also said that as far as he knew the Saudi-born militant was alive.
Bin Laden, along with his deputy Ayman Al Zawahri, is believed to be hiding in the mountainous border region between Afghanistan and Pakistan.
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