Fifteen years have passed since the dead of night in Abbottabad when US Navy SEALs reportedly ended the hunt for the world's most wanted man. Yet, as the calendar turns towards what would have been Osama bin Laden's 70th birthday this March, the ghost of the al-Qaida leader is haunting the digital landscape once more.
A resurgent wave of online conspiracy theories is challenging the official history, suggesting that the terror mastermind never actually died in that Pakistani compound and that the famous burial at sea was nothing more than an elaborate piece of political theatre.
