Truckpusher:
They are simply telling you that he was stylishly killed in a way to avoid any brouhaha with human right activists .You can only understand this if you know the full details of the politics behind everything.

He is as dead as he was suppose to be long time ago.

Just like Bin Ladin, kingpins all over the world are erased and dumped somewhere never to surface again. This controversy over whether he is killed or not is just information management.