What if bin laden is alive

Howard Wasdin, a former Seal, knows men who were on the operation. There is wider scepticism over the official US account that Bin Laden's body was buried at sea.

Michael Morell told me he had seen photos and video of the burial but deflected my question whether we would ever see them, saying it was a matter for the White House. Michael Scheuer, who ran "Alec Station", the special CIA unit which hunted for Bin Laden, believes it was a mistake not to publish pictures of Bin Laden's body and told me "I don't know why they did not do that but secrecy breeds conspiracy theories. Michael Morell speculates that Mr Hersh may have been peddled a story by the ISI as a way of easing their embarrassment and shame over the American raid.

But Mr Morell concedes there are parts of the US account the world may never be told. Osama Bin Laden's story did not end with his death - it continues to fascinate the world. As long as there are nagging questions and details that still do not add up there is likely to be more speculation about who knew what and when about his life and his killing in that compound.

Bin Laden 'focused on US to the end'. Questions swirl around Bin Laden report. Central Intelligence Agency. Image source, AP. His tall frame, long limbs and long face all displayed classic symptoms.

The disease affects one in about 5, people and can cause sudden death and there is no definitive DNA test for it. Like all great conspiracy theories, this one is fact mixed with a healthy dose of fiction -- but the facts make it just believable enough to catch on. The conspiracy theory alleges that bin Laden became a CIA asset at this time. Funded through the heroin trade, tacitly permitted by Pakistan, the CIA created a means to fight Islamic fundamentalism in one place.

The raid that killed bin Laden the terrorist was allegedly a means to let bin Laden the CIA asset retire. This is a theory backed by the Iranian regime. This one comes from legendary investigative journalist Seymour Hersh. The SEALs then riddled him with bullets, tore his body apart, and dispersed them throughout the Hindu Kush, just because. In the London Telegraph , Abbottabad resident Bashir Qureshi dismissed the idea that bin Laden and his family lived in the area.

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And there was the question of whether the U. Special Forces at a compound in Abbottabad, Pakistan. When U. News articles quoted American officials both on and off the record who said that the U. Articles speculated that the country was Saudi Arabia, where bin Laden was born. Although this deviates from the way most Muslim burials occur, U.