[Dukie]

To continue the jihad, I'm confident that bin Laden & dupes would shed the bedouin attire, just as the Sept 11 gang did here.

[Travis McGee]

I think that Osama's image is all important to him, and the damage done to his cause would be too great if he was captured in western attire and clean shaved. He has to make a clean getaway to his slum full of worshippers, or die in a blaze of glory. A capture under humiliating conditions would destroy his mystique and his movement.