Am I alone in believing Osama was already dead?

Intelligence & foreign policy expert Robert Baer, Council on Foreign Relations member Dr. Steve R. Pieczenik, Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf, Head of counterterrorism at the FBI, Dale Watson, Afghan President Hamid Karzai, Secretary of State Madeleine Albright, Senator Harry Reid, Professor Bruce Lawrence of Duke university, Pakistani Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto, Professor of International relations at Boston University Angelo Codevilla, and Pakistani President Asif Ali Zardari. What do they all have in common? They all either state emphatically or claim it highly likely that Osama Bin Laden died as far back as 2001.