I still believe that OBL died in the mountains of Afghanistan. All those recordings since are questionable and the CIA et all always greeted each one as questionable or spurious then later firmly stated that they were possibly real. The press trumpeted the authenticity thus “authenticated.” And then there was no further comment from the government. Back in Tora Bora days the Indian and Chinese press reported that Omar and OBL had been shot by a bodyguard. Omar turned up in the flesh later with signs of having had some traumatic injury. No actually verifiable appearance or recording ever turned up again from OBL. And then when OBL was “taken” his body was hustled into the deep in an unseemly haste.