Bin Laden is alive - or dead?

More about bin Laden's health.

He died of lung problems in December 2001,

http://www.historycommons.org/context.jsp?item=amid1201OsamaToraBoraLung&scale=0

He was buried in an earthquake in 2005,

http://www.historycommons.org/context.jsp?item=ashortlybefore102005OsamaEarthquake&scale=0

and he expired in Iran in 2006,

http://www.historycommons.org/context.jsp?item=a031706WeldonOsamaCroaked&scale=0

all of which makes his near-death condition in 2007 remarkable:

http://www.historycommons.org/context.jsp?item=alate2007CIAOsamaKidneys&scale=0