Local ME press said he died in December 2001, which, with his kidney disease, seems more likely than not. Clowns had several doubles to perpetuate the myth, however.
When you realize that Al Qaeda was a golem, conjured up from the dirt of anti-Soviet Afghanistan, nothing any western government has ever said about them can be taken as true.
What about GW Bush: they hate us for our freedoms. Whose immediate response was to curtail our freedoms and have us treated by TSA fucks as though we were all terrorists.
Government is the enemy. Trump is the purgative/enema. But let's never fall asleep again.