Another one I missed

Michael Ledeen, ten days ago:

[A]ccording to Iranians I trust, Osama bin Laden finally departed this world in mid-December. The al Qaeda leader died of kidney failure and was buried in Iran, where he had spent most of his time since the destruction of al Qaeda in Afghanistan. The Iranians who reported this note that this year's message in conjunction with the Muslim Haj came from his number two, Ayman al-Zawahiri, for the first time.

Today's message from OBL is thought to have been made during December.

I don't see much point in trying to determine whether this is true or not, but it fits with the fact that there was a "summit" of al Qaeda leaders recently and the CIA's hellfire missile strike took out four high level terrorists, but not Zawahiri. It might also help explain why bin Laden's messages for the past few years have been audio only.