[sweetliberty]

Jim, you know that Bush killed him and just has his carcass stashed to drag out right before the election, son't you? < /sarcasm >

[Ditter]

Osama is on the wrong side of the lawn. He is taking a dirt nap. He has ceased to be. In other words, he's dead Jim.

[winker]

Nice thought boss but I'll wait to see a severed head on a pole before rejoicing!

[quesera]

Sorry to say that the timing of this news coming out now is suspicious at best.

[RedBloodedAmerican]

Well, if he is I guess I can toss away my hopes of seeing his head on a stake at Ground Zero.

But then again, if he is dead, we will now have to deal with the mournful cries of the Democrats revering their martyr for "freedom of speech".

[longfellow]

Bring us his head!

[admiralsn]

Rashid : It just so happens that bin Laden is only MOSTLY dead. There's a big difference between mostly dead and all dead. Mostly dead is slightly alive. With all dead, well, with all dead there's usually only one thing you can do.
Reporter : What's that?
Rashid : Go through his clothes and look for loose change.

Sorry Princess Bride fans.

[Grampa Dave]

Good morning!

[7.62 x 51mm]

He's a fully-decomposed grease spot in the Tora Bora caves, under millions of tons of rubble, back in Dec '01. IMO.

[sarasota]

My daughter and I have always stood by the death of OBL.

[RasterMaster]

It's always been my belief that Osama and Omar were killed as they fled Kabul in Omar's Suburban. I recall hearing a report that we bombed Omar's suburban, and nothing after....

[FreeReign]

“If we had not started operation in Wana, the US would have done this and think what would have happened then,” the minister asked.

Wana bet, the Fallujah model will succeed just like this. Remember, it took two years of preparation just to start the Wana operation.

[ThanhPhero]

Osama is still dead.

[Jackknife]

Eternal Sand-Nap

[pollwatcher]

As I said from the beginning, the IDEAL way to deal with these terror leaders would be to make them simply "disappear" Mafia-Style.

If we get enough inside people to cooperate, we could psychologically wear them down. No civilian casualties, dead soldiers or front-page "martyrs" for the inflammatory Arab Media. Sure, the "legacy" may live on, but it would get harder and harder for them to find someone to fill the just-emptied shoes of these fanatic losers.

[SunkenCiv]

Rashid appears to be a weasel.

Pakistan Information Minister Sheikh Rashid has indicated that Al-Qaeda terror network kingpin Osama bin Laden may be dead... "If we had not started operation in Wana, the US would have done this and think what would have happened then," the minister asked... The minister hinted that the government was about to take ‘very important decisions’ regarding water, ties with India and terrorism... most analysts believe there is a danger in laying too much emphasis on al-Qaeda and Osama Bin Laden alone when the reality of growing terrorism is more complex - and perhaps more dangerous.

...but not the "analysts" within the Demagogic Party.

George W. Bush will be reelected by a margin of at least ten per cent

[RetroSexual]

He's not dead, he's pining for the fjords!

[AndrewC]

I'm convinced we got him Dec 2001. 40 Jdam's to a single coodinate in mountains indicates an important target.

[Wolfstar]

A lot of people, most especially George Tenet, believed Saddam Hussein was dead until our soldiers found him in a rat hole. However, I do think it's odd that Zawahiri is doing the videos these days, while we haven't seen contemporary video of bin Laden since Tora Bora time. True, there have been some audio tapes purportedly from bin Laden. Although the voice was authenticated in some, even those tapes contained nothing to verify the dates they were made.

I personally find it hard to believe that bin Laden would not do a verifiably contemporary video if he were able to do so. That leads me to believe he's incapacitated in some way.

Unfortunately, if he is dead, it's highly unlikely we'll ever find his body.

[jriemer]

OBL's not dead, he's just pinin' for the fjords...