Where is Osama bin Laden?

If it wouldn´t that tape from spring - on which the speaker´s voice
is genuinely his voice, according to experts - I would bet he has been
long dead. But the fact is, that maybe except the US Republicans who
believe that he would be the ace card to seal George the Simple´s
re-election, nobody needs him, dead or alive. Not the new generation of
Islamic terrorists - to whom he probably is best hidden, not captured,
dead (they would proclaim him martyre, but to US his death would be
a victory, and in a reality, a blow to the Islamic terrorism), nor openly
in action, bossing them; not current leaders of Aghanistan or Pakistan,
not those in the US who want to use the "war against terror" to mould
the Middle East to their liking and strenghten USA´s world hegemony.
If bin Laden would be captured, there would be calls in US for "return
to normalcy", and when political pundits are speaking of a war for
American values, one that will last for generations, they certainly don´t
want to see their favourite villain and target to be removed to the pages
of history books. Every enemy needs a face, and Osama bin Laden is now
the face of the enemy, easily recognisable.