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Article: Bin Laden missing, claims Taliban; AFGHANISTAN: United States believes hard-line regime may be trying to find way out of fix with terror mastermind.(News)
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- Western Mail (Cardiff, Wales)
- Article date:
- September 24, 2001
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Byline: RHODRI EVANS
OSAMA bin Laden, the man believed to have masterminded the September 11 attacks on the United States, has been missing since Thursday, according to Taliban officials, but the United States does not believe them.
It is thought the Taliban could be trying to elude President George W Bush's demands to hand over bin Laden or face retribution along with him.
US National Security Adviser Condoleezza Rice said yesterday, "We're not going to be deterred by comments that he may be missing.
We simply don't believe it."