Osama bin Laden Sill Alive, CIA Says

World | November 19, 2002, Tuesday // 00:00

An audio recording broadcast last week on the Arabic-language television channel Al-Jazeera was almost certainly the voice of Osama bin Laden, according to United States intelligence officials. If the tape is genuine it suggests the al-Qaeda leader was alive as recently as three weeks ago because it refers to attacks including the shooting of an American diplomat in Jordan on 28 October. The tape is the clearest evidence yet that bin Laden survived the U.S. bombing campaign in Afghanistan.

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