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Despite numerous reports to the contrary, is Osama bin Laden still calling the shots at al Qaeda? A suspected al Qaeda operative named Raja Lharsib Khan told an undercover FBI agent that bin Laden is “perfect, healthy, and he’s leading and he’s giving the orders… he’s OK, he’s in safe hands." Khan, a naturalized U.S. citizen, said he was told this in Pakistan by Ilyas Kashmiri, the head of a Sunni extremist group closely linked with al Qaeda. Kashmiri insisted that bin Laden is “commanding everythings [sic].”