Afghan warlord says Osama, Omar are alive.

Mon Sep 10, 3:24 AM ET

KABUL (AFP) - Al-Qaeda's chief Osama bin Laden and Taliban leader Mullah Mohammad Omar are alive and healthy, an anti-government militant group said after the Saudi millionaire appeared this month on a new video.

"I don't know exactly where they are but I absolutely know they're alive and healthy," Mohammad Haroon Zarghoon, a spokesman for the renegade warlord Gulbuddin Hekmatyar, told AFP.

"We have no communications but we know through our channels that he (Osama) and Mr Omar are both alive," Zarghoon said by telephone from an unknown location.

Hekmatyar, a former Afghan prime minister, is fighting the US-backed government of President Hamid Karzai in a rebellion carried out alongside but separately from that of the Taliban.

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Seems like a very strange announcement right out of the Blue.
I believe he doth protest to much....

Gerald