On Sept 10, in 2002 and 2003, Osama bin Laden came up with his lecture to the world and surprisingly this year there was no message. This has led B. Raman to wonder
The absence of an anniversary homage to the terrorists of the 9/11 operation by Osama is interpreted by some as an indicator that either he is already in the custody of the US or Pakistan and will be produced before the world just before the polling day in the US or that he is dead or that his health has deteriorated aggravating the speech disability reportedly suffered by him due to the sharpnel injury. There is, however, no evidence to corroborate any of these interpretations. He must be presumed to be alive and free till there is evidence to the contrary.[Osamaâ??s intriguing silence]There is another statement in the article that Osama suffered a splinter injury in the air strikes in Tora Bora and he underwent treatment in the Binoi Madrassa in Karachi. All this while America's non-NATO ally was supposedly helping in the war on terror by taking the tax payers money.
Here is where various people stand w.r.t the question, if Osama is alive or not