Osama bin Laden

This is an undated file photo of Saudi dissident Osama bin Laden, in Afghanistan, wanted by the United States government.

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In this file television image broadcast on Qatar's Al-Jazeera TV, is said to show Osama bin Laden, at the wedding of his son in January of 2001.

Osama bin Laden in a rare undated photo with his men and weapons in Afghanistan while fighting the Red Army.

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Suspected terrorist Osama bin Laden is seen in this undated photo taken from a television image.

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A video grab dated June 19, 2001 shows Osama bin Laden firing an AK-47 (Kalashnikov) sub-machine-gun in a video tape said to have been prepared and released by bin Laden himself. Copies of the tape, which shows members of bin Laden's organization Al-Qaeda, or 'The Base', training at their al-Farouq base in Afghanistan, have been circulated to a limited number of Islamists.

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Osama bin Laden is seen in this undated photo taken from a television image.

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Saudi-born millionaire Osama bin Laden (2nd L) appears with al-Qaeda spokesman Suleiman Abu Ghaith (L) and Ayman al-Zawahri (R), the head of a wing of Egypt's Jihad, in this picture taken from a video recorded "very recently" at an undisclosed location in Afghanistan aired by the Qatar-based satellite TV station al-Jazeera October 7, 2001 shortly after U.S. and British forces launched their first retaliatory strikes on Afghanistan following the September 11 attacks in the U.S. In the video, bin Laden praised the attacks on New York and Washington and threatened that the US will not know peace until it withdraws its troops from the Middle East.

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This is a 1998 file photo shows Osama bin Laden, the prime suspect behind the Sept. 11, 2001 terrorist attacks in the United States, in a meeting at an undisclosed location in Afghanistan, according to the source.

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This undated photo shows al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden in Afghanistan.

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Suspected terrorist Osama bin Laden is seen in this undated photo taken from a television image.

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In this April 1998 file photo, al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden is seen in Afghanistan.

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This television image released by Qatar's Al-Jazeera television broadcast on Friday Oct. 5, 2001 is said to show the most recent image of Osama bin Laden, left, handling a Kalshnikov rifle at an undisclosed location.

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In this Dec. 24, 1998 file photo, al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden speaks to a selected group of reporters in mountains of Helmand province in southern Afghanistan.

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This April 1998 file photo shows exiled al Qaida leader Osama bin Laden in Afghanistan.

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Recent TV grab of Saudi Arabian dissident Osama Bin Laden aired May 11 as he answers to a journalist's questions in an undisclosed location in Afghanistan, late March and beginning of April.

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An image of Saudi dissident Osama bin Laden, who appears at the top of the newly released list of the FBI's Most Wanted October 10, 2001 in Washington, DC.

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Saudi-born alleged terror mastermind Osama bin Laden is seen in this video footage recorded at an undisclosed location in Afghanistan aired by the Qatar-based satelite TV station al-Jazeera October 7, 2001.

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Osama Bin Laden poses for this undated photo.

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Osama bin Laden meets with one of his top advisors in this undated photo.

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Saudi dissident and suspected terrorist leader Osama bin Laden is seen in this undated file photo taken somewhere in Afghanistan.

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This frame grab from the Saudi-owned television network MBC (Middle East Broadcasting Center) shows Osama bin Laden sitting between his Egyptian lieutenant Ayman al-Zawahri (L) and Suleiman Abu Ghaith, the spokesman of his al Qaeda network, in an undated videotape broadcast on April 17, 2002. In the tape ,which was reportedly recorded in December 2001, bin laden hailed the economic losses suffered by the United States as a result of the September 11 attacks on Washington and New York. "God ordered us to terrorize the infidels, and we terrorized the infidels," Abu Ghaith said in the same tape, claiming the group's responsibility for the suicide attacks.

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A video grab dated June 19, 2001 shows Saudi dissident Osama bin Laden in a video tape said to have been prepared and released by bin Laden himself. Copies of the tape, which shows members of al Qaeda training at their al-Farouq base in Afghanistan, were circulated to a limited number of Islamists.

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Saudi-dissident Osama bin Laden sits on floor with his AK-47 rifle in his hide out in Afghanistan, Nov. 8, 2001.

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In this 1998 file photo, Osama bin Laden holds a press conference in Khost, Afghanistan and made available Friday March 19, 2004.

This frame grab from the Saudi-owned television network MBC (Middle East Broadcasting Center) shows Osama bin Laden gesturing during an undated videotape broadcast on April 17, 2002.

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compound of a house where it is believed al-Qaida leader Osama bin Laden lived — AP Photo/Anjum Naveed

Vehicles are parked inside the compound of a house where it is believed al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden lived in Abbottabad, Pakistan on Monday, May 2, 2011. Bin Laden, the glowering mastermind behind the Sept. 11, 2001, terror attacks that killed thousands of people, was slain in his hideout in Pakistan early Monday in a firefight with U.S. forces, ending a manhunt that spanned a frustrating decade.

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