[oceanview]

well, there still is the possibility that he was indeed captured in Iran, but his capture (death) in Afghanistan is going to be staged so as not to embarrass Iran. Let's not discount that totally, look at what the Europeans (including the Brits) just did to us regarding Iran and their nuclear program. We may have had to play it this way, finding him in Iran would have implicated that regime 100% in AQ.

[Labyrinthos]

I don't think we would need two months to "recapture" him in Afghanastan. If we in fact had him already, his capture would have been reported someplace other than this thread. I'm also not willing to implicate Iran just because OBL is found there. I suspect we have lots of AQ terrorists living right here in CONUS, but that doesn't mean GWB is complicite (although my answer might be different if the ketchup boy was in charge).