Washington, Jan. 15 : Incoming US President Barack Obama has said that as far as Al Qaeda chief Osama bin Laden is concerned, his administration's policy will be to marginalize his influence, and not necessarily seek to capture or kill him.

Islamabad, Jan. 14 : A day after the US State Department imposed sanctions on disgraced Pakistani nuclear scientist, A. Q. Khan, he has categorically denied ever having met al-Qaeda chief Osama Bin Laden.

He said that the media reports about his contact were baseless, and a part of propaganda of the `western media'.

"I had no direct or indirect contact with Osama Bin Laden and suggestions to that effect were baseless propaganda by the western media," the Daily Times quoted Khan, as saying.

Sana'a, Yemen  - The former driver of al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden arrived in the Yemeni capital Sana'a Wednesday after his release form the US military prison in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, security sources said.

Salim Hamdan, 40, arrived on a US military plane that landed in a military base near Sana'a International Airport, the sources told Deutsche Presse-Agentur dpa.

Hamdan was convicted by a US military commission in August of supporting terrorism and sentenced to five and a half years in prison. He is due for release in January with time served.

He was arrested by the US forces in Afghanistan in 2001, and transferred to the Guantanamo prison in 2002.

Washington  - Osama bin Laden's former driver and bodyguard will be moved from the prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba to Yemen, where he will serve out the remainder of his sentence, CNN reported Monday.

Salim Ahmed Hamdan was convicted of providing material support to terrorism in August and sentenced to five years and six months in prison, but the military judge included the years he had already spent in Guantanamo.

London, Nov.

Washington, Nov. 20 : The suspense over al-Qaeda chief Osama-bin-Laden being alive still remains here, with the United States denying having any information about his death.

The United States has no information that Osama bin Laden has died despite his continuing silence, the White House was quoted by The Nation as saying on Wednesday after the broadcast of a new message from al-Qaeda''s number two Ayman Zawahiri.