Confirmation would be nice – I’ve seen so many false reports about Osama/Zawahiri/Zarqawi/Castro and so on but the coalition forces claims they have word from multiple sources. From CNN – “Top Bin Laden associate killed”: “A top Taliban military commander described as a close associate of Osama bin Laden and Taliban leader Mullah Omar was killed in an airstrike this week close to the border with Pakistan, the U.S. military said Saturday.”