Taliban to ABC News: Bin Laden is Alive

ABC News was recently contacted by the Taliban's top military commander, Mulla Dadullah Akhund. In this surprising phone call, the American news agency's reporter Rahimullah Yusufzai, Dadullah reportedly told them that Osama bin Laden is "all right" and in good health. "He is safe." Dadullah would not disclose where he was calling from.

When asked for evidence that UBL is alive, Dadullah said that there is a possibility of a new tape being sent out. While UBL has released sporadic audiotapes throughout the summer, his last videotape was in October 2004, days before the U.S. presidential elections. Dadullahs statements, if true, refute a widely criticized - and unbelieved - report that the terrorist mastermind died from a serious bout of typhoid.