Your speculation about enhancing the image that Bin Laden is still alive may indeed advance the Reuter agenda. You see, I read an article that claimed that there is an plan for an October Surprise to embarass the Bush administration by a making a false claim that Osama has been captured and then proving that it is the wrong man, just days before the election, leaving voters with the impression that Bush intentionally misled the world.
Who knows?
> ... there is a plan for an October Surprise to
> embarass the Bush administration by a making a
> false claim that Osama has been captured and
> then proving that it is the wrong man ...
With all the false Waldo sightings over the last
3 years, that will be a tough sell.
And I don't see the White House having any desire,
even if OBL turns up, to say anything about it
until 03 Nov. The arguments to keep him "undead"
are just too compelling.