April 27, 2009

Awesome Rumor: Bin Laden Dead

Actually, if you read closely, Pakistan's President is saying that he has no idea where bin Laden is and that he could be dead.

But what the heck, I'm in a glass half full kind of mood and the WaPo headline is "Bin Laden could be dead, whereabouts unknown: Zadari".

So, bin Laden is dead!!

Always lead with the unconfirmed and misleading rumor WaPo. It's a formula, but it works!

It's almost as if the MSM is really no better than we pathetic bloggers. Which is kind of the point we've been trying to make for years and years now.

So, is bin Laden dead? I've no idea.

I'd like to think that he's presently in the lowest circle of hell being gang raped by 72 vicious virgin goats. I have no way of confirming it either way. For all I know he's in some cave in Pakistan and it is the goats that are afraid.

We haven't seen a true video of him in years, only audio. The experts seem to think that it's him. My opinion of audio analysis? It's like voodoo, only with a lot more references to algorithms.

But given that bin Laden's present state of animation are unknown, then it comes down to assumptions and the risks associated with being wrong. In this case I'd say that the safer move would be to assume that bin Laden is alive, since the results of an error here are that he's dead and that we've wasted money in a search to find him. Worst case scenario being we find Zawahiri or Adam Gadah instead.

So, be afraid goats. Be very afraid.

UPDATE: Umm, maybe he is dead? One can be agnostic on the issue if you're a blogger (like me), but it's not a tenable position for those working in intel: either you keep searching for bin Laden or you don't. If the former, then the underlying assumption is he's alive. If the latter then he's dead.


By Rusty at April 27, 2009 10:39 AM | | l digg this