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heck, maybe that's what the journalist from Japan (Yanagita, not Iida Osamu) was up to when he was caught with a satellite phone and photographic equipment outside Kandahar the other day, and is in Taliban custody. Those guys fight like crazy to get the scoop. He might have been moving in to get photos of the carcass or something else. Speculating here, though.

If both leaders were killed by the U.S., would the Taliban would want to divert credit from those kills and claim that their own men turned on them? If the Taliban turned on them, would they want to claim that the U.S. did it? Not that they are that media savvy, but the spin on their deaths would be important. Were they martyred or were they massacred?

Or are they just floating this story so that they can escape to new lives somewhere else?

When I read that piece about Daigen Yanagida I was very happy to see it included his photo.I picked him up off the ice between Big Diomede(Russia) and Little Diomede(Alaska)in 1991.He was being detained by the KGB for having tried to walk across to Russia from Alaska on the ice.The border guards got him on Big Diomede when open ice prevented him from continuing. He's a free spirit,an enjoyable person to know and I wish him well. He's not all that savvy however.When I got him back to my house,he started going through the house like a kid that's got to poke into everything that's new. He picked up my 357,looked down the barrel,and pulled the trigger.I charged across the room and grabbed it from him.I said "What are you doing,are you nuts?" He said,"We don't have these in Japan!" Maybe he's just naturally curious.I hope he lives forever.