Denials of Saad bin Laden's death, but he could not be reached for comment

Bill Roggio:

Pakistani terrorists with close links to al Qaeda denied that Osama bin Laden's son was killed in a US airstrike earlier this year.

"Taliban and Punjabi militant commanders" who are in "close association with Arabs" told The News that while the US air campaign has hit the terror network hard, Osama's son Sa'ad bin Laden was neither killed nor wounded during strikes this year. The commanders did not disclose their names.

"There is no doubt that we lost some of our well-trained and senior people in the US drone attacks in tribal areas, but I can say for sure that Sheikh Osama and his family members were never hurt in any of these strikes," one Pakistani Taliban commander said.

One of the things the US noticed is that he is off the communication net. The pattern for these high profile claims of death is that if they are not true, they generally show up in a video claiming the stories of their death are greatly exaggerated. Perhaps he can do an interview with Zawahiri. But, currently he is giving as many interviews as a dead man.

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