[Smogger]

It is a small world.

Yeah with only about 6 and a half billion or so people to search it's amazing that they haven't come up with anything yet. ;-)

[LS]

OBL is vaporized by the Tora Bora bombing. What we have here is a brilliant strategery by Bush/Powell to, sort of like a reverse "El Cid," keep him alive to a) maintain war focus and b) personalize the AQ-Iraq link.

This is so beautiful: if idiots like Frau Albright say that "Powell's case on Iraq was the weakest part" of his presentation, she now looks like more of a fool. On the other hand, if Al-Jazeera and the other OBL mouthpieces say, "Wait this isn't OBL," we can blow their cover as frauds in the other so-called OBL tape "sightings."

Either way, if "this" OBL is "real," then he is on record as linking AQ and Iraq, so if he gets coverage, it makes Bush/Powell's point. If they don't cover it, the slight forces OBL (if alive) to come out in person to say "Hey, I'm alive."