22 January 2002 DUSHANBE, 18 January (Asia-Plus)–The chairman of the Islamic Revival Party of Tajikistan (IRPT), Said Abdullo Nuri, has denied ever meeting Osama bin Laden. Nuri hosted a press conference on 18 January at the IRPT’s office, in the Tajik capital Dushanbe, to rebuff what he described as “slanderous and provocative” statements by the former CIA officer Robert Bayer […]
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