Mr Rigi has appeared on foreign channels to rebut Iranian claims that he has been killed.
That has prompted some US officials to ask if the latest video is a code to his followers that he has been killed, the Associated Press reported, quoting unnamed sources.
At least twice, he says, he has been told of plots to have him killed.
"In my opinion there's no end served by releasing a picture of someone who has been killed, " he said, quoted by CNN.
It has not been killed, but he is confident that clients will continue to ask for alternatives.
Payne Stewart's name has been withdrawn from the world rankings, four weeks after he was killed in a plane accident.
He's been asked about Kenya, where post-election violence has killed 1, 000 people.
He has been on death row since August 2001 for a 1993 attack in Delhi which killed nine.
An 88-year-old patient killed when the ambulance he was travelling in hit a tree in Hampshire has been named by police.
He has also been under pressure after it was revealed that a German soldier who died in Afghanistan had been killed accidentally by a fellow soldier, and had not shot himself by mistake as had initially been reported.
Al-Azdi has been reported dead in the past, the latest incident being in September when Yemen claimed he was killed in an air raid.
"I do not want officers knocking on doors at any time of the year, but especially over Christmas and the New Year to tell families that a loved one has been killed on the roads, because someone has decided to drive after drinking, " he said.
The former Green Beret has also been credited with playing a key role in the capture of Saddam Hussein, and he led the group that killed Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, the leader of al Qaeda in Iraq.
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