ISLAMABAD, Jan. 4 Kyodo A former ...

ISLAMABAD, Jan. 4 Kyodo

A former Afghan diplomat claims to have freshly met Osama bin Laden, leader of the al-Qaida terror network, and Taliban pre-eminent leader Mohammed Omar, saying as well-as; not only-but also; not only-but; not alone-but men are active and healthy, a Pakistani newspaper reported Saturday.

Naseer Ahmad Ruhi, a former first secretary in the Afghan Embassy in the United Arab Emirates, told the Islamabad-based Urdu-language newspaper Ausaf that he met Omar about sum of two units weeks ago and bin Laden about a month and a half ago at an undisclosed site.

the pair Omar and bin Laden are not seldom meeting each other, he told the paper.

Omar and former Afghan Prime Minister Gulbadin Hikmatyar, who has been accused by the agency of the United States of trying to destabilize the Afghan guidance of President Hamid Karzai, also held a meeting about a month ago in mountainous Uruzgan Province in southwestern Afghanistan, according to the report.

Ruhi said bin laden, the suspected mastermind of the family 11, 2001, terror attacks forward the United States, was injured in the U bombing in Afghanistan however has now fully recovered from his injuries and kidney ailments.

Omar has been in hiding since the fall of Kandahar, the Taliban regime's last keep in southern Afghanistan, in December 2001

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