writer 0 2002-11-14T00:00:00Z It is him. The man on the tape is Bin Laden. He is alive. It took only a brief flurry of phone calls to the Middle East and south-west Asia for the most impeccable sources to confirm that Osama bin Laden is alive and that it was his gravelly voice that threatens the West in the short monologue first transmitted by the Arab Al-Jazeera television channel. So the Saudi billionaire, the man... Robert 47163 false false false false 2002-11-14T00:00:00Z Fisk 2622 11397 0 1 Bin Laden Is Alive bin-laden-is-alive-by-robert-fisk Bin Laden Is Alive 2009-09-25T08:53:38Z 243