It Makes a Difference to the Sheep

BIN LADEN ALIVE BUT NOT FOR LONG?

A British-based Islamic news agency said Wednesday it had a new tape recording of Osama bin Laden in which the Saudi militant allegedly predicts his own death this year in an unspecified act of "martyrdom."

Although I have previously posted about Osama bin Laden's actual whereabouts I have to confess that I still think that the guy is dead. If he wanted to unequivocally demonstrate his continued existence on this earth he could easily do so with a videotape of him holding the front page of yesterday's New York Times or even by merely commenting on the fact that the Bucs won the Super Bowl shows how decadent America is, or whatever. The fact that he hasn't done so is a sign to me that he is incapable of doing so--because he's dead. This prediciton of martyrdom only increases my convinction. It is too convenient. So too is the alacrity with which the Bush administration declared the latest videotape to be legitimate.