Osama Bin Laden died eight years ago during the battle for Tora Bora in Afghanistan, either from a US bomb or from a serious kidney disease.
Or so the conspiracy theory goes.
The theory that has developed on the web since 9/11 is that US intelligence services are manufacturing the Bin Laden statements to create an evil bogeyman, to justify the so-called war on terror in Afghanistan, Iraq and back at home.
So is the world's most wanted man still alive?
For a decade, Osama bin Laden has managed to evade the world's superpower and the biggest manhunt in history.
Bruce Riedel, who chaired President Barack Obama's Afghanistan/Pakistan policy review, and who has seen the intelligence on Bin Laden, says the trail has not so much gone cold as "frozen over".
"We don't have a clue where he is," he says.
Read more @ BBC News
Watch "The Conspiracy Files: Osama Bin Laden - Dead or Alive" - BBC Two 2130 GMT Sunday 10 January.
If Osama Bin Laden is dead then part of the fuel driving the so-called "war on terror" is in the same hand dead too. Every ship needs it's captain. Without that it will sick and cease to exist.
May Allah shine sweet faith upon you this day and times beyond. May your heart be enriched with peace, and may your home be blessed always. Ameen.
if he is dead the franchise lingers on as does the Brotherhood and twerps like islamuk