Osama dead

Apparently it was a headshot and the pics are quite gruesome which is why they are debating about releasing them. They are very likely to emerge eventually.

FWIW - most of you debating conspiracies and challenging the authenticity of the event sound like those "birther" idiots. You can argue the timeline but I would imagine if it was BS it would have taken Al Qaeda less than 6 hours to come up with proof that he was still alive.

Well said, Al Qaeda could very simply cause the US (and all those countries expressing approval) enormous embarrassment and make great political capital from simply releasing a video of Bin Laden responding to the claims of his death.

But the problem is that conspiracy theorists know no edge to their lack of reason, if you point out the obvious flaws in their ideas they will simply expand their ideas to subsume the new evidence (imagine in this case the claim would be that Bin Laden did actually release a video showing the US claims were false but all the broadcasters are "in on it" so would not show the tape) - this process continues right up until the point where you finally show absolute proof that their theory is flawed - at which stage you yourself are also subsumed into the conspiracy ("you seem to have to answer to everything so you must be working for them").