[Dog Gone]

There's a definite air of confidence being exuded by people in a position to know. I don't deny that.

It's hard to imagine why that would be unless they had either caught OBL or had him pinned. But I have trouble imagining that we had caught him and planned to keep that secret. It would be virtually impossible to do, and the ramifications for hiding it (especially for political purposes) would be grave. So, I don't think that's it.

[swarthyguy]

Or mush has Osama. And can't wiggle his way out.

The confidence is similar to last fall when both Franks and Myers spoke about Saddam's capture by the end of the year.

[mabelkitty]

We don't have him - Pakistan has him.
They don't want an overthrow of the government, so they have to handle this tactfully - make it look like the U.S. has reason to invade over the deeds of their Scientist other crimes and to prevent us from doing so, they hand him over.

My uneducated guess.