Bin Laden ‘directing al-Qaida plans for attack on US’

OSAMA BIN LADEN was yesterday reported to be directing an al-Qaida effort to launch an attack in the US sometime this year.

“What we know about this most recent information is that it is being directed from the senior-most levels of the al-Qaida organisation,” the New York Times quoted a senior Bush administration official as saying at a media briefing.

“We know that this leadership continues to operate along the border area between Afghanistan and Pakistan,” the official said.