Bin Laden alive and well, says Taliban  The brother of a Taliban
commander killed by US forces has claimed that he received a
letter of condolence from Osama Bin Laden, who was "alive,
active and well".  In a television interview today, Haji Mansour
Dadullah said the al-Qaida leader had expressed sympathy for the
death of his brother, Mullah Dadullah, who was killed by US
forces last month.  Mullah Dadullah was the Taliban's top
military commander and leading public figure. He was notorious
for orchestrating massacres, kidnappings, beheadings and suicide
bombings, and would frequently boast to the media about attacks
he had organised.  The one-legged militant leader was killed
during fighting in Helmand, the province in southern Afghanistan
where British troops are based, something Nato said later had
dealt the insurgency a "serious blow".  Speaking from
Afghanistan, Haji Mansour Dadullah told Al-Jazeera television
station that Bin Laden had said he was keeping a low media
profile to maintain his safety.  "Th