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The government is lying {ours} There is too much foggy comments by us, fuzzy

Someone leaked the info in Iran, we are pissed, Sean is probably right

{{{"Iranian state radio quoted its reporter as saying the arrest happened a long time ago.
"Osama bin Laden has been arrested a long time ago, but Bush is intending to use it for propaganda maneuvering in the presidential election," he said."
Speaking to the AP in Tehran, Hossein identified one of the sources for the bin Laden report as Shamim Shahed, editor of the English-language Pakistani newspaper The Nation in Peshawar. Hossein said Shahed told him Friday night that bin Laden was arrested "a long time ago."

But Shahed, who is The Nation's Peshawar bureau chief and not its editor, denied telling the Iranian radio station that bin Laden had been captured.

"I never said this," Shahed said in a telephone interview with the AP's Islamabad bureau. "But I have for the last year been saying that he is not far away. He is within their (the Americans') reach, and they can declare him arrested any time."

Hossein said he had a second source for his report that bin Laden had been captured, but he declined to identify him except to say he was "a man with close links to intelligence services and Afghan tribal leaders."}}}

The Iranian news agency IRNA {{{was first to report the capture of Saddam Hussein. }}}IRNA also carried the state radio report about bin Laden's capture and said it had contacted a radio announcer at the Pushtun service who confirmed the news.

I think the US, Pakistan and Iran are all on board this one now, going out on a limb but I've not believed nada to this point

I'm too tired to write much of a coherent response, but I agree. We may not hear the official news today, but I'm about 98% sure we got him. Probably when Sean said.

P.S. I'm so sick of Fox News only talking about Michael Jackson, Kobe Bryant, Martha Stewart, Scott Peterson, blah, blah, blah... :(

DEBKA says:

"Iranian media confusion over reported capture of Osama bin Laden. Saturday, Iran’s state radio in Pushtun announced his capture by US forces in Pakistan. Iran's Al-Alaam Arabic station followed with denial of first report from its Kabul correspondent."