Sounds like this pro-Al Queda web site accidently let slip the truth that Bin Laden is indeed cavorting with 72 virgins somewhere...then suddenly remembered that "Osama lives" (yeah, just like Elvis...)

DUBAI (Reuters) - An Arabic-language Islamist Web Site apologized on Wednesday for alarming followers of Osama bin Laden by running a report suggesting the world's most wanted man was killed in Afghanistan in 2001.

"I apologize to the readers for writing this report. I would like to start by telling them that Sheikh Osama bin Laden is alive," wrote a man who identified himself as Abou Ja'far al-Kuwaiti, apparently an alias that indicates that he is a Kuwaiti follower of bin Laden.

The article appeared on Web Site www.jehad.net with the headline: "Yes, Osama has been killed but Holy struggle will continue until doomsday."

It added: "The story of the missile that removed the trench in Tora Bora in which Osama bin Laden had been hiding."

The author, who said he was an eyewitness to a U.S. raid in Tora Bora, Afghanistan, in December, said the man killed then was Osama al-Adani, while bin Laden survived.

He said an Arabic satellite television had quoted the Web Site as saying bin Laden was dead and had demanded a correction.

Washington, which blames bin Laden and his al Qaeda network for the attacks, has led a military offensive in Afghanistan to seek out bin Laden and to punish his Taliban hosts for sheltering him and his militant network.

The fate of bin Laden and many of his lieutenants remains unknown.

The story was published on Wednesday, the first anniversary of the suicide attacks on the United States that killed more than 3,000 people including 19 suspected hijackers.

The author said bin Laden had left the trench when a missile was fired by a U.S. B-52 bomber on apparent tips that the leader of al Qaeda was there.

"Even if it was Osama bin Laden who was killed, the sun of Holy struggle does not go down," he said.