The CIA "sources" named by journalists (read "professional bush haters") are always "unnamed" sources. I take that as either illusionary or from the bush-hating clique in the CIA -- it's clear the agency hasn't said "Osama is alive" in any official capacity.
And Bush is VERY careful to always be equivocal on the question of Osama -- i.e., "he may be alive or may be dead" and its easy to understand what's behind that position -- on the 1 in 1million chance that Osama IS alive, Bush would not want to give Osama the satisfaction of pulling a real appearance AFTER Bush officially claimed he was dead.
But he IS dead.
The CIA is not in the business of casually vetting tapes thay some Arab journalist (read conspirator and enabler) gets his hands on. Any such info you read about is a tip or a plant. Why they do this; what reason they do this and what is the accuracy of the tip is just a pure guess.
Funny, I have to tried to state my beliefs on facts in this thread. You have gone from a belief to a conspiracy theory. So to sum it up: The cia can't detect voice patterns and the cia was Clintoon leftovers?
I don't know whether he is dead or not! The facts would suggest that he is not. What facts do you have that he IS dead? Because he was supposedly in the Torabora Mountain region when we bombed it? I don't want to argue this anymore, you believe what you want to believe and we will see how it all shakes out.