Osama bin Laden died in December 2001

[cansouth]

edition.cnn.com/2002/WORLD/asiapcf/central/10/06/karzai.binladen/
October 7, 2002

KABUL, Afghanistan (CNN) -- Osama bin Laden is "probably" dead, but former Taliban leader Mullah Omar is alive, Afghan President Hamid Karzai has said. "I would come to believe that [bin Laden] probably is dead," Karzai said on CNN's "Late Edition" on Sunday. "But still, you never know. He might be alive. Five months ago, six months ago, I was thinking that he was alive. "The more we don't hear of him, and the more time passes, there is the likelihood that he probably is either dead or seriously wounded somewhere."

216.26.163.62/2002/me_terrorism_10_16.html
October 16, 2002

Israeli intelligence: Bin Laden is dead, heir has been chosen TEL AVIV -- Osama Bin Laden appears to be dead but his colleagues have decided that Al Qaida and its insurgency campaign against the United States will continue, Israeli intelligence sources said. The Israeli sources said Israel and the United States assess that Bin Laden probably died in the U.S. military campaign in Afghanistan in December. They said the emergence of new messages by Bin Laden are probably fabrications, Middle East Newsline reported.

www.welfarestate.com/binladen/funeral/

Translation of Funeral Article in Egyptian Paper:
al-Wafd, Wednesday, December 26, 2001 Vol 15 No 4633

News of Bin Laden's Death and Funeral 10 days ago

Islamabad - A prominent official in the Afghan Taleban movement announced yesterday the death of Osama bin Laden, the chief of al-Qa'da organization, stating that binLaden suffered serious complications in the lungs and died a natural and quiet death. The official, who asked to remain anonymous, stated to The Observer of Pakistan that he had himself attended the funeral of bin Laden and saw his face prior to burial in Tora Bora 10 days ago. He mentioned that 30 of al-Qa'da fighters attended the burial as well as members of his family and some friends from the Taleban. In the farewell ceremony to his final rest guns were fired in the air. The official stated that it is difficult to pinpoint the burial location of bin Laden because according to the Wahhabi tradition no mark is left by the grave. He stressed that it is unlikely that the American forces would ever uncover any traces of bin Laden.

news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/south_asia/2135473.stm
18 July, 2002

The US Federal Bureau of Investigation's counter-terrorism chief, Dale Watson, says he thinks Osama bin Laden is "probably" dead.

Here is a photo from a fake video from October 2004. It is not Osama bin Laden who is on the video:


Here is a photo from a fake video from 2001. It is not Osama bin Laden:




Here are photos of the real Osama bin Laden from two videos from year 2001. If he was alive today, he would probably have made some new videos now and then :








Links:
www.whatreallyhappened.com/osama_dead
www.miff.no/porten/viewtopic.php?t=1868&highlight=
www.guardian.co.uk/alqaida/story/0,12469,851112,00.html

[Loredoctor]

Actually, the Osamas in all the videos look identical. Proof that they are fake?

[Warmark]

And a video was released fairly recently of him.

[sgt.null]

if he had died, wouldn't that make him a matyr? and wouldn't that be used as propoganda?

[Loredoctor]

if he had died, wouldn't that make him a matyr? and wouldn't that be used as propoganda?

Well said!

[Prebe]

While I see the logic in what sgtnull says, it must be taken into the equation that Ossama is probably more valuable as a rallying point for radical islamists than he is a martyr?