Taliban chief says he hasn’t seen Bin Laden
A Pakistani newspaper quoted fugitive Taliban leader Mullah Mohammed Omar as saying that he had not seen Al Qaeda head Osama bin Laden since the hard-line Islamist government was ousted in Afghanistan five years ago.
Omar also said the Taliban and Al Qaeda still shared the goal of driving U.S. forces out of Afghanistan, the influential Dawn daily reported.
The authenticity of the comments could not be confirmed. Qari Yousaf Ahmadi, who often speaks for the Taliban, said the remarks were from the Taliban but not directly from Omar.
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