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Al-Quds Al Arabi newspaper, said this week Hindu activists arrested in

that the leader of the al-Qaeda leader is in religious dispute
good health, but had been wounded in an Troops resume Dhaka
crime fight
attack on his base in Afghanistan last
December. Bangladeshis flock to
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Mr Atwan said Bin Laden's followers had told
hunger strike
him that he would not make more video
Ex-Gurkhas take MoD to
statements until his group launches another court
attack on the United States.
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Mr Atwan is one of few journalists to have
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interviewed Bin Laden before the US attacks.

Last week, the head of Germany's foreign

intelligence agency also said Bin Laden was
alive and believed to be hiding in the border
region between Pakistan and Afghanistan.

'New attacks'

August Hanning told German newspaper Welt

am Sonntag that the wanted Saudi dissident
was still very much a key figure within the
al-Qaeda terror network.

"Given the information we have we are

convinced that Bin Laden is still alive," he
said.

"He is still the figurehead of al-Qaeda, but

doesn't appear to move around very much."

Mr Hanning said that an estimated 5,000

al-Qaeda operatives still remained in
Afghanistan and Pakistan, while others had
returned to their countries of origin to plan
new attacks.

"They are preparing new attacks from their

new locations," he said.

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