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US thinks Bin Laden son was killed, not certain  	
Jul 23 01:12 PM US/Eastern
By PAMELA HESS AND PAULINE JELINEK
Associated Press Writer 	




"80 to 85 Percent" Chance Saad bin Laden is Dead

		WASHINGTON (AP) - A U.S. counterterrorism official said Thursday that 
Saad bin Laden, a son of al-Qaida leader Osama bin Laden, may have been 
killed, but that intelligence agencies are not certain of his fate.

Speaking on condition of anonymity to discuss intelligence, the official 
said Saad had not been a major operational figure in his father's 
terrorist organization.

The son may have been killed in a U.S. Predator drone strike in Pakistan 
earlier this year, according to several U.S. broadcast organizations. 
Officials said there was a "80 to 85" percent per chance he was killed 
during a strike on someone else, National Public Radio and Fox News 
reported.

Saad bin Laden was believed to have fled Afghanistan for Iran shortly 
after the U.S. invasion of Afghanistan in late 2001.

After being held under a form of house arrest in Iran for a number of 
years, he is believed to have turned up in Pakistan, where his father 
has reportedly been in hiding somewhere in the ungoverned border region 
near Afghanistan.

In January, the U.S. Treasury Department slapped financial sanctions on 
the younger bin Laden and three other al-Qaida figures. In announcing a 
freeze on their assets held under U.S. jurisdiction, Treasury also said 
that people from the United States would be barred from engaging in 
financial transactions with them.

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