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    re: osama bin laden captured in pakistan - bollock Pakistan Says Bin Laden Arrest Report Baseless
    Wed March 12, 2003 08:39 AM ET
    ISLAMABAD (Reuters) - Pakistan's Interior Minister said on Wednesday reports that al Qaeda chief Osama bin Laden had been arrested in the country were unfounded and baseless.
    Other senior government officials also denied the report of bin Laden's arrest, which was carried on Iranian radio, monitored by the British Broadcasting Corporation.

    "This is absolutely unfounded and absolutely baseless," Interior Minister Faisal Saleh Hayat told Reuters.

    In Washington, the U.S. government said it had no information to substantiate an Iranian Radio report about bin Laden.

    "We have no information to substantiate that claim," said a spokesman for the U.S. administration, whose view was echoed by two other U.S. officials.

    "There is nothing to substantiate this rumor," another U.S. official said of the report.

    Iranian Radio, monitored by the British Broadcasting Corp., reported bin Laden was being held by Pakistani Inter-Intelligence Services and that U.S. troops were present.

    Bin Laden is held responsible by the United States for being behind the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks on the World Trade Center in New York and the Pentagon, in which nearly 3,000 people died.

    On March 1, Pakistani authorities arrested Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, one of al Qaeda's top members and another Sept. 11 mastermind, in a raid on the northern city of Rawalpindi.








 
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