Pakistani Taliban deny Zawahiri report

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ISLAMABAD (AFP) — Pakistan's Taliban movement on Saturday denied a US television report that Al-Qaeda's deputy leader Ayman al-Zawahiri may have been wounded or killed in a missile strike this week.

The Pakistani military said it had no information on the report by CBS, which said it had obtained an intercepted letter from a Taliban commander urgently requesting a doctor to treat the Egyptian.

"This is totally baseless. The claim is rubbish, there is no truth in this," Maulvi Omar, a spokesman for Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (Pakistan Taliban Movement), told AFP.

"Baitullah did not write any letter to anybody. He never asked for any help or assistance," said Omar, referring to Taliban warlord Baitullah Mehsud, who has been linked by Pakistani and US officials...