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BAGRAM, Afghanistan (AP) - Three years after the Sept. 11 attacks, Osama
bin Laden and his deputy are still issuing orders for attacks by
al-Qaida, a top American commander told The Associated Press Saturday.
Maj. Gen. Eric Olson said that an al-Qaida linked group was suspected of
a deadly car bombing at a U.S. security firm in the Afghan capital last
month. He said the attack was a suicide mission.
``There are senior leaders of al-Qaida that are working through
operatives in Afghanistan,'' Olson told The Associated Press in an
interview. ``They are involved in planning and in some cases directing
attacks inside of Afghanistan.''
Olson, the operational commander of U.S.-led forces in Afghanistan, said
the military had no fix on the whereabouts of either bin Laden or
al-Qaida No. 2 Ayman al-Zawahri. But the involvement of well-trained
foreign fighters in attacks near the Pakistani border convinced him that
the fugitive leaders were pulling the strings.
``What we see are their techniques and their tactics here in
Afghanistan, so I think it is reasonable to assume that the senior
leaders are involved in directing those operations,'' he said.
Olson spoke to AP after a ceremony at the main American base north of
Kabul to mark the anniversary of the 2001 attacks, which sparked the
U.S. campaign to oust the Taliban and drive al-Qaida fighters from
Afghanistan.
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