Pentagon: No Sign Bin Laden Has Left Afghanistan
Saturday November 17 11:18 AM ET
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. military has no evidence that Saudi-born militant Osama bin Laden has left Afghanistan and is still hunting him in that rugged country, a Pentagon spokesman said on Saturday.

``We have no evidence that he has left Afghanistan,'' Glenn Flood, a Defense Department spokesman, told Reuters.

He was responding to a report on Qatar-based al-Jazeera television quoting Mullah Abdul Salam Zaeef, the Taliban envoy to Pakistan, as saying bin Laden had left Afghanistan for an unspecified destination.

``We are still looking for him,'' said Flood, adding that he could not confirm or deny the television report.

Bin Laden and his al Qaeda movement are accused by Washington of being behind the Sept. 11 attacks on America in which about 4,500 people were killed.