What Zawahiri did here was basically to deliver an eulogy and instruct his followers.
There was a very detailed analysis worked out and delivered to the right point.
Roughly six months later there was a confirm from a small Pak newspaper (which I forget the name of) that Osama had died earlier from wounds sustained in a firefight.
The dead guy from the visit in Pakistan last week was reported by one of his wives who is in Paki custody, to be "hale and hardy, no physical problems."
The ObL guy we were tracking in Afghanistan needed dialysis, could barely walk, was deaf, absurdly nearsighted and astigmatic. We knew all of this when he was a mujadehhin leader against the Russkis in A-Stan when it was their problem. We were sorta pals with him then, and his insanely wealthy family company was and probably still is a US Contractor in Saudi Arabia.
Given the extreme density of the bin Ladn gene pool, it is entirely possible that the Osama I died a good while ago, and Osama II, a relative perhaps, was in his place. My ethanol-powered eye (the good one) seems to detect certain slight differences between recent and old photos.
BTW, the DNA check on his sister's brain samples left in Boston, is a really dumb idea, as ObL was one of 75 children by a raft of related mothers who were related to his father. By now there are at least 5000 people who could have "similar" DNA. There should be fingerprints on file in KSA (rotsa ruck!) and we should have taken prints off the corpus delicti before the touching funeral at sea thing. Although I would have pickled the Muslim and put him on display at county fairs in the hog pavilion.
I know Pearl will back me on this, as we have been searching for a new conspiracy ever since the release of the fake BC.