The dreaded terrorist, however, also offered a 'long-term truce' to the Americans.
He also told interrogators that Abu Omar al Baghdadi, who is identified as the leader of the Islamic State of Iraq, is a fictional role created by al Masri and that an actor is used for audio recordings of speeches posted on the Internet.
The software called Analyst's Notebook was also used in the capture of deposed Iraqi president Saddam Hussein.
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Iran's state radio on Saturday quoted unnamed sources saying that terrorist mastermind Osama bin Laden was captured in Pakistan 'a long time back.'d Osama bin Laden was captured in Pakistan 'a long time ago.'
The Pentagon is moving elements of a supersecret commando unit from Iraq to Afghanistan to step up the hunt for Osama bin Laden, reports Rowan Scarborough in The Washington Times.
'A major internal upheaval cannot be ruled out.'
It is regrouping under a new commander in\n\nthe remote Khyber area of Pakistan.
Initially slotted for 2005, it was advanced in response to the recent assassination attempts on Pakistan's President General Pervez Musharraf.
The ISI's new terror matrix comprises three major terrorist groups, at least half-a-dozen big and small front organisations with extremist ideology, spanning three countries.
Al Qaeda chief, Osama bin Laden, and ousted Iraqi dictator, Saddam Hussein, have been nominated for the title of the 'Greatest Arab' of all time in a Middle Eastern variant of the BBC's Great Britons series.
