Bin Laden in good health, says official

OSAMA BIN LADEN’S captured right-hand man has revealed that the al-Qaida leader is in good health and living in the mountainous border region between Pakistan and Afghanistan, a Pakistani intelligence official said yesterday.

Khalid Shaikh Mohammed, believed to be the terror group's tactical mastermind, claimed he met bin Laden just weeks ago after arranging a rendezvous through a complicated network of phone calls, runners and intermediaries.

The meeting took place somewhere in southwestern Pakistan's Baluchistan province or amid the rugged peaks that run like a seam along the Afghan border.