Bin Laden 'to appear on TV'

Osama bin Laden is alive and will appear on a videotape soon, a man who identified himself as a senior al-Qaida member told an Arabic weekly.

“Sheikh Osama is alive and in good health. He has gained more weight due to security precautions and his inability to move a lot as you will notice in his next appearance,” Abdel Rahman al-Rashed told the London-based Arabic-language magazine Al Majalla in remarks published Friday.