hrmn.
I still want his head on a pike, for DNA verification (and other things)
There was an article in the NYTimes some time ago, an interview with a spy in Israel. On being asked her opinion on Bin Laden's fate, she said something like this: if he is dead/captured, the government will never let on because in the vacuum, the other would-be heads would just be asking themselves if he has gone further into hiding, if his communications networks have been interrupted, etc.. Plausibel, no?