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Monsoor is on the O'Reilly radio show (John Gibson) and says they cannot be sure if Bin Laden's son(s) are involved until DNA tests are complete on both the dead islamists and the arrested islamists.

It seems we don't really know what UBL's islamist offspring look like.

Saad, Hamza, and Saif bin Laden can all be seen on a videotape released a couple years ago when Hamza married one of Mohammed Atef's daughters. There's at least one other one of importance, Mohammed, but we have little clue what he looks like.

I heard the reason they suspect these might well have been his sons is that the convoy they were apparently traveling in was one that the US had flagged as being a potential bin Laden escapee route. Of course, if he survived Tora Bora and has been able to stay under the radar this whole time (remember last summer the FBI counter-terrorism guy figured he was dead, a position still held by many on FR), he must be quite good at evading US intelligence. This whole thing may actually be a giant smokescreen to distract the CIA while bin Laden makes a mad dash for Iran.