[smith288]

Me and my wife concluded its not him. First of all, the nose is more balbus in the link, Osama had a flare. Second, his eyebrows almost met with the hair on his sides, in the link, there is great distance from his eyebrows and the hair on the sides...

Just our humble opinions

[Angelus Errare]

If bin Laden died on 12/9 then how come Fox News was reporting that US forces in the area heard his voice over the radio between 12/10-12/16 when the battle was at its height? Not calling Ollie a liar, just asking a reasonable question of his sources.

While the stories of his survival sound a lot like urban legends, so do the accounts of his death. He died on December 6 of kidney failure. He died on December 9 from US bombing. He was on horseback just before we carpet bombed the area, ect.

The situation with the 9/11 posting on al-Neda and Jehad.net is a little more interesting, but not by much. There was a story about somebody named "Osama" dying, but the website made it unclear as to whether or not it was bin Laden. Then came a message from the al-Qaeda "politburo" stating that bin Laden was indeed alive.

In the end, I'm inclined to suspend judgement on such matters until we can either produce a corpse, come up with a plausible explanation as to how he died (and these conflicting accounts out there do nothing to reassure me), or interrogate Binalshibh and friends to find out who they were getting their marching orders from. Until then I plan on operating on the assumption that there is neither proof for nor against.

Incidentally, if bin Laden is dead beyond a reasonable doubt why the heck hasn't the Bush administration stepped up to take credit for it?