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Article: Taliban's Envoy Admits Bin Laden Is in Afghanistan; Militia Claims Control of Suspect's Actions
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- The Washington Post
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- October 1, 2001
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Afghanistan's sole ambassador to the outside world said today that
alleged terrorist Osama bin Laden is being sheltered in a secret
location in Afghanistan by the country's ruling Taliban militia,
which has had knowledge and control of his actions for more than two
years.
In an interview with a small group of foreign reporters, the
Taliban ambassador to Pakistan, Abdul Salam Zaeef, acknowledged for
the first time a direct link between the Taliban and bin Laden, who
is accused of masterminding the attacks on the World Trade Center and
the Pentagon.
"He has been in the control of our forces," Zaeef said, speaking
through an interpreter. He said bin Laden was "under the security" of
the Taliban ...