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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.

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

We've got tens of thousands of Muslims in our military fighting in the war of terror. Are you proposing that we show them animosity?

It's odd that Osama isn't doing video... Would a cover story about him not wanting to blow his cover after plastic surgery work?

OBL could could possibly remain alive but I doubt it. If a clear 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.