Is Bin Laden Dead?
Osama Bin Laden has evaded the CIA and US Military since 9/11, something his top men and Saddam Hussein could not do. Is he still alive? His last 100% confirmed video tape was released in 2001, almost seven years ago.
What has the media said about it?
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December 26, 2001: Fox news reports that Osama Bin laden could be dead.
“Bin Laden, according to the source, was suffering from a serious lung complication and succumbed to the disease in mid-December, in the vicinity of the Tora Bora mountains. The source claimed that bin Laden was laid to rest honorably in his last abode and his grave was made as per his Wahabi belief.
…The Taliban source who claims to have seen bin Laden’s face before burial said “he looked pale … but calm, relaxed and confident.”
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January 2002: “I think now, frankly, he is dead for the reason he is a … kidney patient,” Pakistani General Musharraf told CNN. Musharraf went on to say:
“I don’t know if he has been getting all that treatment in Afghanistan now. And the photographs that have been shown of him on television show him extremely weak. … I would give the first priority that he is dead and the second priority that he is alive somewhere in Afghanistan.” Source
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Former Secretary Donald Rumsfeld met with troops in Kyrgyzstan on April 26, 2002. While responding to a question about negotiating with Osama Bin Laden he responded:
“You know in truth, it is kind of his choice. We’re hunting him down, we’re tracking him down, he’s hiding. We haven’t heard hide nor hair of him since, oh, about December, in terms of anything hard. We don’t know where he is. We are pretty sure he is either dead or alive.” Source
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In this interview, the former Benazir Bhutto states that Osama Bin laden was murdered. Obviously this contradicts the sources that say he died a peaceful death. But it still suggests that Bin Laden is dead.
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But hasn’t Bin laden released new audio and video tapes since December 2001?
For one, the audio tapes could be easily faked. Anyone with a similar voice could sound like Osama Bin Laden. Voice morphing software is also easily accessible.
However, the best case against the “Osama’s dead” argument is a 2004 video tape. The tape names presidential candidate John Kerry by name and therefore suggests that Bin Laden is still alive by at least summer 2004. Other analysts have pointed out that the face in the video seems much less slim than the earlier 2001 videos of Bin Laden.
In the end we will probably never know what happened to Osama bin Laden. He could be still alive, but it’s probably not likely. His kidney trouble combined with the need to hide and not attend a proper medical center contribute to the “Osama’s dead” argument. It’s also arguable that if he was alive, he would release a high quality tape encouraging his terrorist fighters.
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wtf…..is he dead or not should i be worried that the white house will be blown up next gosh find this guy and contain him or kill him
Well, certainly Osama Bin Laden is allready dead. May be the number 2, Al Zawaheri is dead or about to die. But there are the sons of Osama, like Ansar that has been raised in the image of his father and into his fascist cause. And this has never meant the end of any Al Qaeda terrorist organisation.
In fact Al Qaeda groups rise in each occupied countries by american troops or under pro american governmenent in the middle east and Asia.
The icon lives and raise forces in Jordania, in Palestinia, in Syria and Iraq is for them a battlefront for 4 years now. Iran harvest them as a middle safe place between Iraq and Afganistan : look on the map. Pakistan harvest them for a decade. This fascism doesn’t die with Bin Laden, it grows as war on terror grows ! Here is the problem. An arabian opposition to the occidental civilisation ! In fact, while it grows in the middle east, it lives safe the american terri -tory. And even Russia that have kick them out of Chechenia, Daguestan and Oscetia, help Iraqi anti american groups of terrorists, because once the battle is in Iraq, it’s far away from any place in Russia.
It looks that everybody arrange itself with the continuity of instability in Iraq or in Afghanistan ! Except for Israel that is in war for 40 years and keep out the problem with a separation wall ! The only way for them.