Did Snowden claim to have survived bin Laden?
Another very popular conspiracy theory about the death of Osama bin Laden is that he is still alive, he is living luxuriously on the Bahamas, under the supervision of the CIA, and also receives $ 100,000 monthly salary from the US government. It is said, very sensitive about bin Laden, the former US NSA (National Security Agency) officer Edward Snowden, who has been exposed to the secret information about the NSA. It is claimed in this news that Snowden or bin Laden is actually an important agent of the CIA. So, he has been safely evacuated by spreading false news to kill him.
The news was first published in the World News Daily Report, a satirical website, whose work is to publish various annoying news about real characters for fun. On the website's Disclaimer page clearly describes their role, and it is said, even if it matches a person in reality, all the characters published on this site are actually fictional.
What is actually in the documents leaked to Snowden?
Although the news of the World Daily News report was cited by Edward Snowden, in reality, Snowden never made any such claim. No interviews of Snowden, any tweets, or Snowden's writings are regularly published in newspapers, there is no such claim anywhere. Rather, the opposite is exactly what it is. While some other investigative journalists express skepticism about the description of the official language, there are certifications found in some of the official publications of Snowden's published documents.
For example, Pulitzer Prize winning journalist Saimur Hersh claimed that the description of bin Laden's investigation by bin Laden's messenger Abu Ahmed al-Qutty was completely false. Rather, a Pakistani intelligence officer willingly came to the CIA for the prize of reward, telling about the residence of bin Laden. Although it is not known whether bin Laden was found by al-Qa'ida, although it is not known from the leaked documents of Snowden, but it is found on such a messenger that the CIA has been under surveillance for many days and tried to find bin Laden's existence in his destinations.
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More from Snowden's files, the CIA could have found a letter written by bin Laden to Abu Ayub al-Masri, the head of al-Qaeda in Iraq in 2007. Also in the documents leaked to Snowden, the news of extensive research was found on the files retrieved from his residence after bin Laden's assassination. But it is not known whether it was possible to retrieve important intelligence from those files, or analyzing them. But the most important information that comes out of Snowden's file is that the US government actually checked Bin Laden's DNA and the results were mixed.
Is anyone claiming bin Laden's survival?
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It is almost certain that bin Laden was killed in the operation of Abbottabad (Operation Neptune Spear), when the al-Qaeda leader accepted the statement after a few days of the incident. The death of the main leader is not good news for any organization, if it is disseminated, the members of the organization can break the morale. But then they admitted it. After bin Laden's death, his close companion Ayman al-Zawahiri took over the leadership of al-Qaeda. For the past seven years, Zawahiri has released many audio and video, none of which has any indication of bin Laden is alive.
Zawahiri is not alone, a few months before his death, there was direct or indirect contact with bin Laden, many al Qaeda leaders are still alive, fighting in different groups in Syria and giving regular statements. For example, Abu Muhammad al-Zulari, who was then an important leader of the Iraqi branch of al-Qaeda and later became the head of al-Nusra Front, he also gave a TV interview with al-Jazeera in 2015. But none of these leaders ever denied the death of Bin Laden in the US operation
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