While I don’t subscribe to so-called ass-brained theories that Bin Laden never existed, I am coming around to the view that he’s dead as Michael Ledeen has suggested. I mean why wouldn’t Bin Laden issue a video for the five year anniversary of 9/11? Did he not know it was coming up? Zawahiri, his number two guy, issued a tape. It’s hard to understand why unless Zawahiri’s pretending he’s not in charge like Tony Soprano and his Uncle. A Bin Laden tape would be the perfect “evergreen” and he could have recorded it months ago — that is, if he were alive.