'Bin Laden dead long before US raid'

Sun May 8, 2011 4:33PM



Iran's Intelligence Minister Heidar Moslehi


Iran's intelligence minister says the country has reliable information that former head of the al-Qaeda terrorist group Osama bin Laden died of disease some time ago.


“We have accurate information that bin Laden died of illness some time ago,” Heidar Moslehi told reporters on the sidelines of a Cabinet meeting on Sunday.

He questioned Washington's claim that bin Laden was killed by American troops in a hiding compound in Pakistan on May 1.

“If the US military and intelligence apparatus have really arrested or killed bin Laden, why don't they show him (his dead body) why have they thrown his corpse into the sea?” Moslehi asked.

“When we apprehended [former Jundallah ringleader Abdul Malik] Rigi, we showed him and also aired his interview,” ISNA quoted the intelligence chief as saying.

By releasing such false news, he said, the White House seeks to overshadow regional awakening.

Moslehi said US officials resort to such PR campaigns to divert attention from their domestic problems as well as their “fragile” economic situation.

US President Barack Obama claimed that Osama bin Laden was killed by US forces on May 1 in a hiding compound in Pakistan.

A US official later announced that bin Laden's body was abruptly buried at sea, falsely boasting that his hasty burial was in accordance with the Islamic law, requiring burial within 24 hours of death.

However, burial at sea is not an Islamic practice and Islam does not have a timeframe for burial.

US officials also claimed their decision for a sea burial was made because no country would accept bin Laden's remains, without elaborating on which countries were actually contacted on the matter.

Analysts, however, have raised serious questions as to why US officials did not allow for the application of a DNA test to officially confirm the identity of the corpse before its hasty burial.


Al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden died almost a decade ago after spending some time in a US hospital in Dubai, a former US Treasury official has told Press TV.



“FoxNews, which is the American neo-conservative, very, very conservative, very patriotic media station, reported in December of 2001 that the Taliban have announced that bin Laden had died,” said Paul Craig Roberts, former Assistant Secretary of the US Treasury.

“It's well known that bin Laden suffered from kidney disease, he requires dialysis. It's less well known that he had a genetic disease that does not allow a long life,” Roberts told Press TV.

He said at the time bin Laden was still an American agent and he was visited in a US hospital in Dubai in 2001, before the September 11, 2001 attacks.

“Bin Laden was visited in the American hospital in Dubai -- I believe, in July of 2001 -- by the CIA physicians," he said, adding that bin Laden "was created by the Americans to fight Soviets in Afghanistan.”

US President Barack Obama claimed that bin Laden was killed by US forces on May 1 in a hiding compound in Pakistan, resisting while unarmed.

yeah right

and taliban and alqaeda would confirm his death?

just another butthurt anti- american country brining up shitass conspiracy theories

weather na man kill snake abi na woman kill snake, e no concern me, d important is say snake don die. chikena!

Yes, that is very correct.

Bin Laden died "long ago": he "died" the day he attacked America. He was only a walking corpse and it was a matter of time before he dropped.

Iranian Intelligence? I laf in Arabic.