Usama Bin Ladin’s Son Believed Killed in Airstrike

Saturday, July 25, 2009 at 1:09 pm

WASHINGTON: US officials believe Usama bin Laden’s son Saad bin Laden was killed in a US airstrike in Pakistan. Usama Bin Ladin’s Son Believed Killed in Airstrike

Sources confirmed to US news channel that officials believe the younger bin Laden was killed by missiles fired by a US Predator drone earlier this year.

National Intelligence Director Mike McConnell told the television that Saad bin Laden reportedly traveled to Pakistan last year after spending several years under house arrest in Iran.

It isn’t possible to tell for sure whether he was killed, since a body hasn’t been recovered, preventing DNA tests, a senior U.S. counterterrorism official said.

Saad bin Laden was involved in Al Qaeda but wasn’t a leader in the terror organization, headed by his father.