[B-bone]

I'm still waiting for a picture of Osama holding today's newspaper.

[Mohammed El-Shahawi]

As long as we still continue "praising" Pakistan for their efforts in clamping down on Al-Qaeda, Bin Laden will remain alive.
It's so obvious he's in Pakistan it's not even funny.

[Stentor]

What is the lead time on a taxidermy job?

[nina0113]

Even that won't be good enough for me - I'm waiting for an announcement from the FBI that the picture isn't faked.

[hchutch]

Actually, there are two bounties:
$25 million from the government, $1 billion from some West Coast telecom execs.

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/524234/posts

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/524981/posts

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/537214/posts

Looks like both are still active...

[eureka!]

Yep, something besides these 'reports' would definitely end the speculation. This from Reuters, no less. One too would think that the CIA has this "journalist" monitored big time. Oh well, in time, the truth will out...

[Schnucki]

I'm still waiting for a picture of Osama holding today's newspaper.

I'm with you. Until I see something like that, it's just another Elvis sighting (or more likely, it's just an attempt to boost islamic morale).

[denydenydeny]

Where's that "Weekend at Binnie's" graphic?

[MichaelP]

Abdel-Bari Atwan, editor of the London-based daily al-Quds al-Arabi newspaper

London really is a nest of Al Qaeda.
If MI6 isn't monitering every communication this idiot has I'll eat my hat.

Bin Laden is dead!

Mike

[r9etb]

"Al Qaeda people say they are relaxed now and they will fight a war of attrition against U.S. soldiers," added Atwan, who interviewed bin Laden in 1996 and keeps in contact with his associates and followers.

Oh, really? What this really says is that Al Qaeda remains scattered, despite those claims to the contrary. Al Qaeda can claim responsibility for any and all attacks by whatever militant group (of which Afghanistan has more of than grains of sand). They can even do some of their own small raids -- all of which gives the impression that they're still organized and still effective.

But in reality they cannot hope to rebuild and re-form in any large-scale way, because they will once again become targets.

And we still have no evidence that Osama is alive.

[kellynla]

Agreed, but I would prefer a picture of him D E A D with a copy of today's paper...

[freeperfromnj]

"My sense is that he will time any new attack to coincide with a U.S. attack on Iraq. He would want to capitalize on this to appeal to the Arab street so he will probably delay any attacks until the United States moves on Iraq," said Atwan.

Seems like their strategy is to play the fear card so that Americans will waiver in their support for a preemptive strike on Iraq.

[Hugin]

Abdel-Bari Atwan, editor of the London-based daily al-Quds al-Arabi newspaper, said al Qaeda associates recently told him...

"Osama is alive and well in Argentina."

[Walkingfeather]

Exactly! The PR for a surviving osama would be too good for him to pass up thumbing his nose at america before now. He is in peices.

[JeeperFreeper]

Bin Laden is as dead as the Clintons' senses of honesty and ethics. And that, gentle reader, is as dead as it gets.

[Peach]

Yeah - it's easy to "stay out of sight" when you're dead.

[RetiredArmy]

Who will be sighted first? Elvis or OBL?

[AmericanInTokyo]

Yeah, they could morph that, too. Would like to see Bin Laden in a clear video, clearly in his own words what the exact exchange rate for 1 Saudi Arabia riyal to the US dollar is for 29 August 2002, for example. Down to the decimal point.

Fact is, they cannot clearly prove he is live.

I remember the movie in the 1980s about El Salvador's civil war when the leftist rebels propped up one of their dashing (but dead as crab meat) 'commandante's, took staged photos and the peasants still thought he was alive and hence took to arms.

[ecomcon]

"He is the master of disguise...." You should see his "compost" disguise. It's pretty convincing.

[VMI70]

But remnants of al Qaeda and their Taliban allies have continually frustrated the U.S.-led coalition by hiding in mountains, melting into the local population or fleeing into neighboring Pakistan or Iran.

The solution to this is to melt the local population.

[COBOL2Java]

Bin Laden Reportedly Back at Helm of al Qaeda

Which body part?