Is Osama Bin Laden dead or alive?
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.
Re: Is Osama Bin Laden dead or alive?
Re: Is Osama Bin Laden dead or alive?
[quote=Amal]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.[/quote]
if he is dead the franchise lingers on as does the Brotherhood and twerps like islamuk
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.