#53. Nine Lives of Osama Bin Laden

[Telegraph, 12/28/2001] Bin Laden's voice was detected regularly until December 14. 2001 by intelligence operatives monitoring radio transmissions in Tora Bora, according to the Pentagon. Since then, nothing has been heard from him.

[FOXNEWS.COM] Usama bin Laden has died a peaceful death due to an untreated lung complication, the Pakistan Observer reported, citing a Taliban leader who allegedly attended the funeral of the Al Qaeda leader. 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.

[KABUL, Afghanistan (CNN) -- October 7, 2002] "I would come to believe that [bin Laden] probably is dead," Afghan President Hamid Karzai said on CNN's ‘Late Edition’.

[FBI: Thursday, 18 July, 2002, UK] The US Federal Bureau of Investigation's counter-terrorism chief, Dale Watson, said "… I personally think he is probably not with us anymore but I have no evidence to support that."

[LONDON, England (CNN) -- October 26, 2002] The editor-in-chief of a London-based Arab news magazine said a purported will, published Saturday was written late last year by Osama bin Laden, and shows "he's dying or he's going to die soon." U.S. intelligence officials say they have the purported will … a four-page document, said to be signed by the leader of the al Qaeda terrorist network and dated December 14, 2001, in Afghanistan. In the document, which was translated for CNN, the writer states: "As for you, my sons, forgive me if I failed to devote more of my time to you since I answered the call to Jihad," the document says. To his wives, the author says, "May God reward you generously. You have been very supportive to me. You recognized right at the start that the path will be paved with land mines and other obstacles."

Professor David Ray Griffin, formerly of California's Claremont School of Theology … wrote a book in 2010 that claimed bin Laden died of kidney-related issues in 2001 while living in the Tora Bora mountains of Afghanistan.

Former CIA case officer Robert Baer said of bin Laden in 2008, "Of course he's dead."

Bashir Qureshi, who lives just a bean field away from where bin Laden was shot and whose windows were blown out in the raid, was dismissive. "Nobody believes it. We've never seen any Arabs around here, he was not here." A number of Abbottabad, residents believe it was a U.S. conspiracy. Some residents doubted not only that bin Laden was dead, but also that he ever lived among them.

[Reuters] A U.S. national security official, who was not named, told Reuters that "'this was a kill operation', making clear there was no desire to try to capture bin Laden alive in Pakistan".

[President Obama] states that his first comment was, “It is him.” No proof. No photo. No body. In other words, take my word for it -- "It is him."

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