Bin Laden released some video and audio messages over the last 10 years, most of them after 2001. It was maybe not proved 100% to be authentic, but it was in the least proved to be very likely to be authentic. If it is very likely that we saw and heard the real Laden, what makes you believe that he died in 01? Do you choose to believe the least likely theory?
There's a link in the OP which reports his death in 2001.
I'm looking into that link now.
The story origins from Pakistan Observer, is that someone you trust? And the story was retold in Fox, a source you normally don't trust. But you choose to trust Fox when it fits your conspiricy paranoia?
I've never heard about the Pakistan Observer before, and I don't trust them when they tell the story of 'some mountain guy'. This is hearsay spread by media. You call that proof?!
You obviously chose not to read the OP properly - I said that link was not the original source I heard it through but it gives the same story. There are also plenty of government officials who think he died in 2001 so don't be trying to make out that I'm on my own when it comes down to choosing which story is the most likely. I check a news story via different news sources and listen to how each one tells it, then try to figure which elements of the story seem correct. Thinking for yourself rather than trusting known liars isn't a bad thing.