JEDDAH, 18 October— One of Osama Bin Laden’s sons denied yesterday having given an interview to a British tabloid which quoted him as saying his father, the world’s most wanted man, would never be captured by the West.

The Saudi daily Al-Madina quoted Abdullah Bin Laden as saying that the purported interview published by London’s Sunday Mirror on Oct. 14 was totally made up and raised a question mark about the credibility of Western media.

Abdullah, speaking in Jeddah, told Al-Madina the Sunday Mirror’s story was so full of “lies” that it was easy to detect them. Pointing out that his age was 24 and not 18 as claimed by the British paper, Abdullah said he had not left Jeddah “for a long time.” As for his trip to Pakistan, this took place 12 years ago when he was a child. This meant he could not have been interviewed in Islamabad, as the Sunday Mirror claimed.

One of Abdullah’s uncles revealed that such reports are concocted. He also confirmed that Abdullah had not left the Kingdom for a long time.

Abdullah told the Jeddah-based Arabic daily that he is a married man and presently lives with his family in Jeddah along with his brothers and other members of the Binladens.

According to the daily, Abdullah said “the last time he met or spoke with his father by telephone was six years ago,” and not just before the US-led bombing blitz of Afghanistan began on Oct. 7, as the British tabloid suggested.

The paper quoted Abdullah as saying his father, Washington’s chief suspect in the Sept. 11 terror attacks in the United States, was still in Afghanistan, hiding in the mountains with 300 commandos.

“America and Britain will never track down my father,” Abdullah was quoted as saying. “He has vanished into the landscape — he is invisible.”

Abdullah allegedly said Bin Laden disappeared into the hills with 60 trucks filled with satellite equipment on Sept. 11 but that his father insisted he was not involved in that day’s attacks in New York and Washington.

The Sunday Mirror said the interview was arranged by an agent of Afghanistan’s Taleban ruling militia and took place in a guarded compound in a diplomatic quarter of Islamabad, the Pakistani capital.

Abdullah was alleged to have told the tabloid his father was now hiding in a cave, plotting victory against the Northern Alliance, the opposition grouping in Afghanistan, and against Special Forces sent to capture or kill him. “He has outsmarted the Americans for many years. He’s now in the safest place in the world. No matter how many planes bomb our homeland, Afghan earth will never give up my father,” Abdullah allegedly said.

The Sunday Mirror also quoted Abdullah as saying that his younger brother and sister and their mother, Bin Laden’s fifth wife, were granted safe passage to Islamabad after the coalition started bombing Afghanistan a week ago. Abdullah denied having told the British journalist that he hated foreigners to the extent that he never had shaken hands with non-Muslims.

Al-Madina said Abdullah Bin Laden, a businessman and father, complained about the “doubts” being cast on him and his family and the “fantastic stories concocted by Western journalists about him and his brothers,” such as the Sunday Mirror piece. Bin Laden’s son urged Western media to refrain from publishing baseless stories, which will only destroy their credibility.