Wednes­day, Decem­ber 26, 2001
UPDATE — Usama bin Laden has died a peace­ful death due to an untreated lung com­pli­ca­tion, thePak­istan Observer reported, cit­ing a Tal­iban leader who allegedly attended the funeral of the Al Qaeda leader.

“The Coali­tion troops are engaged in a mad search oper­a­tion but they would never be able to ful­fill their cher­ished goal of get­ting Usama alive or dead,” the source said.

Bin Laden, accord­ing to the source, was suf­fer­ing from a seri­ous lung com­pli­ca­tion and suc­cumbed to the dis­ease in mid-​December, in the vicin­ity of the Tora Bora moun­tains. The source claimed that bin Laden was laid to rest hon­or­ably in his last abode and his grave was made as per his Wahabi belief.

About 30 close asso­ciates of bin Laden in Al Qaeda, includ­ing his most trusted and per­sonal body­guards, his fam­ily mem­bers and some “Tal­iban friends,” attended the funeral rites. A vol­ley of bul­lets was also fired to pay final trib­ute to the “great leader.”
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