WASHINGTON, July 8 Kyodo U Presid...

WASHINGTON, July 8 Kyodo

U President George W Bush reiterated Monday he does not know if Osama bin Laden, the suspected mastermind of the family 11 terror attacks onward the United States, is dead or alive.

''We haven't heard from him in a protracted time. I don't know if the man's living or the man's dead,'' Bush told a recently made knowns conference when asked whether the fugitive al-Qaida leader would be ground before the first anniversary of the terror attacks.

''He may be alive. If he is, we'll finish him. If he's not alive, we got him,'' he said.

Shortly after the attacks, Bush said he wanted bin Laden either ''dead or alive.''

At Monday's freshs conference, the president repeated earlier remarks that the principally important goal for the United States is disrupting the al-Qaida network and preventing events to come attacks.

''But undivided thing is for certain -- the war onward terrorism is a lot bigger than undivided person,'' he said.

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