Bin Laden could be dead, whereabouts unknown: Zardari

[Niels Bohr 72]

Mon Apr 27, 2009 9:22am EDT ISLAMABAD (Reuters) - Pakistan's President Asif Ali Zardari said on Monday that the whereabouts of al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden remained a mystery and there was a suspicion that he could be dead.

Speaking to international media, Zardari said U.S. officials had told him that they had no trace of the al Qaeda chief, although they habitually say he is most likely in Pakistan.

Pakistan's own intelligence agencies were no wiser, either, Zardari said.

"There is no news," the president said. "They obviously feel that he does not exist anymore but that's not confirmed, we can't confirm that."

Al Jazeera aired excerpts of an audio recording in March in which the speaker's voice sounded like earlier messages from bin Laden, who has eluded all efforts to catch him since al Qaeda carried out the September 11, 2001 attacks on the United States.

Bin Laden, if he is still alive, turned 52 on March 10, but he is known to suffer from ill-health.

There have been reports that he had died of natural causes in the past, but they have never been corroborated, and security analysts believe intelligence agencies monitoring jihadi websites on the Internet would have picked up some chatter.

(Reporting by Zeeshan Haider; Editing by Simon Cameron-Moore and Dean Yates)

[Saddle Bronc 124]

Translation: he's living in Lal Masjid, having moved in after we raided that place.

[NickD 203]

Always heard the Bush's were good buddies with the bin Ladens' and Osama is suppose to be the bad seed. But still a member of the family and blood is much thicker than water.

Can only wonder.

[EstebanTrabajos 7]

he cut his beard and now nobody recognizes him, just bought a mansion in Boca

[sara..... 371]

in 2003 when i lived in pakistan there was a rumor that he was dead but neither pakistan or usa wanted anyone to know because the war on terror could not go forward like it has if he was dead.

sara

[Nagishkaw 510]

Translation: he's living in Lal Masjid, having moved in after we raided that place.

[spookyturtle 9,466]

Maybe he's in Mexico and started the flu.

[Saddle Bronc 124]

Maybe he's in Mexico and started the flu.

OBL is more like bubonic plague than flu.

[Amby 490]

If he's dead, it's more likely he died of natural causes than it is he died from us

Edited April 28, 2009 by Amby

[Nagishkaw 510]

Revelation 13:3........

And I saw one of his heads as if it had been mortally wounded, and his deadly wound was healed. And all the world marveled and followed the beast.