[fourhorsemen]

OBL is already dead. Been dead. Will stay dead for the foreseeable future. It is highly likely that his bodyguards knocked him off as many Asian sources claimed shortly after US went into Afghanistan. He didn't even make it to Tora Bora. It is, however not in US best interests for him to be dead at the moment.

And yet he's releasing tapes commenting on the capture of Saddam Hussien.

[ThanhPhero]

Somebody is doing tapes.I don't think it's OBL and I don't think the army will tell us that. This is war and disinformation is a necessary part of war. Without his body or his DNA it is better that he be considered as alive and functioning lest the world and our on Crats rise up to scream that OBL is dead the war is over bring the troops home. So long as he is "alive" they get little audience for that sort of thing. Many of the Joe Blows of the US and the world see this as a criminal manhunt rather than as a war because that is how the government presented this sort of thing before 9-11. It is still PC to not allow animosity towards Islam and Moslems the way our press and government demonized nips and krauts in WWII so we have to keep an individual supervillain for that purpose. Yes. OBL could could possibly remain alive but I doubt it. If a vlear videotape is issued starring OBL that indicates conclusively that he is alive, with, say, a current newspaper in the picture and no evidence of creative splicing, then I would accept that he is alive. But AQ doesn't do videos any more. They are harder to fake than audios.