[SevenMinusOne]

Not dead - Being hunted at great risk 24/7 by warriors on Ops 99% of which the details will never be told - We’ll get him one of these days - Time was on his side when one understands the region into which he fled after 9-11 - He and Zawahiri will both be put in the ground (and the world will know within a week or two of their deaths).

[MadJack]

I was making a somewhat light-hearted reference to Chevy Chase’s quips about General Francisco Franco, the Spanish dictator, from the old Saturday Night Live.
As for OBL, I concur with a recent article from The Counterterrorism Blog
“Bin Laden Has A New Tape Out And He ... Zzzzzzz”
by James Gordon Meek.
As for the search, I’ve been in Afghanistan for over two years, and have a vague idea of what’s going on in the NWFP tribal areas.