There is no Osama bin Laden in Kazakhstan

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Osama bin Laden is not in Kazakhstan, says Kazakhstani MP, member of the Parliamentary Committee on International Affairs, Defense and Security Tokhtarkhan Nurakhmetov.

While commenting to REGNUM on the statement by former US National Coordinator for Counterterrorism Richard Clarke that the terrorist #1 is in one of the Central Asian states, Nurakhmetov said that bin Laden is certainly not in Kazakhstan.

“I hear this for the first time. Still, I am absolutely sure of what I am saying,” he said.

Nurakhmetov said that there have been many reports about Chechen fighters being treated in Kazakhstan, but the National Security Committee has found no fighters in the country. He said that recently his colleagues from the committee discussed this question with NSC officials, who assured them that there are no rehabilitating fighters in the territory of Kazakhstan.

Before being elected into the parliament in 2004, Nurakhmetov directed the NSC’s research institute. He is honorary agent of the Soviet and Kazakh security services.