Osama gone?

The following was in an article recently published by Michael Ledeen. It is interesting how little attention it has generated because the guy is fairly well connected to sources in Iran. Maybe we have finally decided it really makes little difference. Read the whole article.

And, according to Iranians I trust, Osama bin Laden finally departed this world in mid-December. The al Qaeda leader died of kidney failure and was buried in Iran, where he had spent most of his time since the destruction of al Qaeda in Afghanistan. The Iranians who reported this note that this year's message in conjunction with the Muslim Haj came from his number two, Ayman al-Zawahiri, for the first time.