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WASHINGTON Feb. 7. U.S. defence and intelligence official refused to comment on a flurry of media reports that a high-ranking Al-Qaeda official, possibly Osama bin Laden himself, was killed in south-eastern Afghanistan earlier this week. "We are not commenting on these reports now," a Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) spokesman, Fred Leeder told AFP.

All major U.S. television networks reported late yesterday that an unmanned Predator drone operated by the CIA fired a missile on Monday at a group of people believed to be senior Al-Qaeda leaders meeting near a cave complex known as Zawar Khili — AFP

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