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Taliban does not know where Bin Laden is

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Sayed Tayeb Agha the spokesman for the higher commander of the Taliban movement al-Mulla Muhammad Omar said on Wednesday that the movement does not know the place of Osama Bin Laden and has no contacts with him stressed determination to defend the southern districts in Afghanistan the movement already controls.

News reports quoted Tayeb Agha Khan as saying in a press conference in Sbein Buldak area in the southern east of Afghanistan:" we do not have any idea now on the place where Bin Laden does exist, nor have any contact with him.."

He added:" our lands are limited to three or four provinces and therefore we do not where he is, noting that there are no contacts with him ( Bin Laden.) On the other hand, the spokesman for the movement said that it ( Taliban) owns enough military forces to defend Qandahar and also in the south and the surrounding provinces, adding that the movement decided to stay and defend Qandahar.

He continued that " at the meantime, our forces are in Qandahar and the adjoining provinces are enough to defend the areas we control, noting that " people living in our provinces are soldiers and well-trained."

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