They don’t even have to actually “get” Osama bin Laden to claim they did.
I’m not at all convinced he’s even still around to get anyway. They could just claim credit for what happened years ago. Who’s going to refute it, bin Laden? If he pops his head out of a cave to say, “Did not!”, great.
Think it through.
Suppose the CIA or any US agency claimed that OLB was well and truly dead.
How many seconds would it be before the left and all its leaders declare the WOT over and call for an immediate withdrawal of US forces from everywhere?