Airstrip One

Where's Osama?

One for the conspiracy buffs. A large number of low profile press stories are suggesting:

http://www.paktribune.com/news/index.php?id=56720
http://www.aljazeerah.info/News%20archives/2004%20News%20archives/March/2n/Pakistan%20Rejects%20Report%20of%20US%20Deal%20on%20Bin%20Laden%20Hunt.htm
http://www.usatoday.com/news/opinion/editorials/2004-03-02-andrews-edit_x.htm
http://www.jihadunspun.com/intheatre_internal.php?article=95572&list=/home.php&
http://www.jihadunspun.com/intheatre_internal.php?article=95576&list=/home.php&
http://www.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,4057,8829429%255E2,00.html

Now to put out these stories is inviting ridicule if Bin Laden is not captured. Now we do know that his driver has been caught and held in Guantanamo, and the driver will know enough to let him down.

So have they got him. Well they've denied it here, here and here. So it can't be true.