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U.S. Army Captain Michael Kelvington, commander of the Battle company, 1-508 Parachute Infantry battalion, 4th Brigade Combat Team, 82nd Airborne Division, bows next to remains of Gulam Dostager, a member of Afghan Local Police who was killed in the blast of an Improvised Explosive Device (IED) during the joint Tor Janda (Black Flag in Pashtu) operation, in Zahri district of Kandahar province, southern Afghanistan May 25, 2012. REUTERS/Shamil Zhumatov (AFGHANISTAN - Tags: MILITARY CIVIL UNREST CONFLICT TPX IMAGES OF THE DAY)

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U.S. says Bin Laden son may be dead

WASHINGTON | Thu Jul 23, 2009 12:36pm EDT

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The son of al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden may be dead, but he was not an important player in the group, a U.S. counterterrorism official said on Thursday.

"There are some indications that he may be dead, but it's not 100 percent certain," the official said on condition of anonymity. "If he is dead, Saad bin Laden was a small player with a big name. He has never been a major operational figure."

He is believed to have been killed by an unmanned drone in Pakistan, but the counterterrorism official would not confirm that.

(Reporting by Tabassum Zakaria; Editing by Patricia Zengerle)
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