Having just arrived on this thread from the Ted Williams cryonics thread, I find this comment most amusing.
However, Musharraf said in January that he believed Osama was dead and gone, and I have no reason to not accept that. Eyewitness report posted on FR: Dead of pneumonia in December in a dank mountain cave, possibly by 15 Dec.
I think that's easier done dead than alive.
I find it hard to believe he wasn't a goner before the towers were hit though I suppose a Live word of encouragement probably would be a nice touch for the suicide team.
I think it's really cheesy for our partners in the War Against Terror ... those Former Soviets who've worked so hard to get their Anti-Terror Internationale up and running so quickely ... not to let us know one way or another.
They know, I'm sure.
So why doesn't GW know 6 months later?
What is the CIA for?
Or the other alphabet agencys?