Bin Laden running operations in Iraq, Afghanistan?

Reuters:

Al Qaeda chief Osama bin Laden is orchestrating militants' operations in Iraq and Afghanistan, a senior commander of Afghan Islamist group Taliban said in remarks broadcast on Wednesday.

Bin Laden has not made any video statements for many months raising speculation that he might have died.

"He is drawing plans in Iraq and Afghanistan ... Praise God he is alive," Mullah Dadullah told Al Jazeera television.

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Dadullah said bin Laden ordered the attack on February 27 at the U.S. Bagram base during a visit by U.S. Vice President Dick Cheney to Afghanistan.

"Do you remember the martyrdom operation inside the Bagram base which targeted a senior American official ... this operation was the result of blessed plans put by him," Dadullah said. Jazeera said the U.S. official Dadullah was referring to was Cheney.

"He (bin Laden) guided us through it," he said, adding that no Afghan would have been able to penetrate the base if it was not for the world's most wanted militant.

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Shhh. Don't tell the Democrats. They are positive that he has nothing to do with the war in Iraq. It could be that Dadullah is just blowing smoke. The interview itself is a little surprising because it does not discuss how Dadullah got surrounded by Afghan troops and what he is doing to slip away.

Gateway Pundit has more on the report including material from al Jazeera.