If one of the main reasons for thinking this is the press conference scheduled for tonight, that doesn't seem to be the agenda. Looks like it's going to be about gas prices and social security:

http://apnews.myway.com/article/20050428/D89OHFIO0.html

Mind you, that's just one of the factors given for thinking Osama is dead.

What would be awesome is if Bush reached into a hat box and said "Here's Osama's severed head, America. Now kindly appoint me some conservative judges."

Yeah and they almost caught Zarkawi.

When they have his head and his desert-oysters on a platter, call me.

Batman: "Now to make this planted story sprout."

You do know that a Fatwa has been issued against you ACE for posting Bin Laden dead?

Robin: "You were right, Batman, we might have been killed."

Batman: "Or worse."

It's a ploy by Glenn Reynolds to draw the attention away the discussion over his earlier posting.

Damn clever bastard...

Who cares if Bin Laden's dead? Don't they know there's a war on?

If or when we get Binnie, or more importantly Ayman al-Zawahiri, it will be highly satisfying, but hundreds stand ready to replace Binnie...

Death, or worse, God forbid, than having him free, IMO ---God forbid his capture and 7 years of an ACLU circus, a Global Trial of the Century guaranteed to make him an Immortal Martyr whose every speech at Trial will go out to hundreds of millions...

All that won't change the basic framework of the war on radical Islam that much. It's a war of beliefs, ideas, and policies in conflict. The people on either side of the war are secondary to that.

Mullah Omar. Mullah Omar.....Anyone remember that old "Arch-Evildoer' and why getting him was once so important to winning the War on Terror and stopping him from "Hijacking" the Religion of Peace?

Not to mention the fact that the world's number one terrorist, Ariel Sharon, is still on the loose.

No, I don't. And neither do you. You say it and hope we just shake our heads and accept your version of truth.

The fact is, we tried to persuade Omar to turn UBL over to us. We asked the Pakis to pressure Omar to step back from the foreigners and permit us to "capture" UBL.

Omar was a long way from being an ally, but at no point has his capture or death been a priority of ours beyond enough lip service required to pressure him and his followers to disassociate from UBL.

Why would you even try to get away with that?

You Americans are such dupes! Bin Laden puts out these emails every time he wants to prove he's still alive and deliver secret instructions to our Jihadis!

A FATWA UPON THE ACE OF SPADES!!!

ALAH AKBUR!!!

Spongeworthy -

At one point, Mullah Omar was in the "Big 3" of top "evildoers". Him, Binnie, and al-Zawahiri.

We long ago realized he is just an illiterate Bozo who sheltered Binnie. Not really even involved in global terror.

But the 10 million "Arch-evildoer" reward still stands. He may be a joke, but a joke worth 10 million from the US taxpayer.

Of course the US has yet to realize that offering 30 pieces of silver for betrayal of a fellow tribesman is deeply offensive to those people's honor and such huge rewards are probably counterproductive except in highly secular places like Iraq. Want Binnie or Zarkawi? Best place to start is lowering the reward on each down to say only a million or so, except for Pakistan's ISI.

I'm watching Bush's presser right now, and if he's got bin Laden's severed head in an Igloo cooler inside the podium, he's sure playing it cool. I'll stay at my post, just in case he puts on a smirk and reaches down, saying "Hey, look what the Navy Seals brought me this morning."

Ace--

Please, please, please modify the Andrew Sullivan advisory to incorporate "GOB-SMACKED." It's so much more...Andrew, don't you think?

Well, when the alert is actually on red, it reads 'filled with heart-ache by such gob-smacking vileness.'