[ladysusan]

No offense, but are we even sure that the video is claiming that bin Laden is dead?

With all due respect, the video shows a body with a jaw restraint similar to the type that is put on a corpse after death. I reiterate, it is my assessment that whose ever body this is ( and I personally don't think it is UBL) it is not dead, but alive. The cardinal signs of death - dark coloration,mottling, rigor, blood pooling - are not present. For whatever reasons, the video is attempting to present a living body as if it were a a dead one, and it just doesn't wash. In that regard ,it is a hoax.

[Publius Maximus]

It seems to me the body is alive in certain frames, and dead in the final frames, as if the point is to capture and share the moment of whoever-it-is's passing.

It looks like it could be Bin Laden; then again, there are certain phenotypical characteristics that argue against it. Hard to tell without "professional" analysis...

[steve-b]

The cardinal signs of death - dark coloration,mottling, rigor, blood pooling - are not present.

Those signs take some time to manifest, so they wouldn't appear on a fresh corpse.

That said, the guy in the pics is no more Osama bin Laden than I am.