Al-Qaeda leader Bin Laden 'dead'. Again.

[James H. Fetzer]

I think highly of Magda, but I tend to assume that those who post here are up-to-speed on these things, which, it turns out, is often a baseless assumption. I am a bit more perplexed that, when I suggest someone is not current, you come after me, hammer and tongs, but when some mindless twit accuses me of being "the government's leading spook", not a peep! Please explain. Am I missing something?

Prof Fetzer - you have an opinion. Indeed, you have an informed opinion. As do most of the serious and committed researchers on Deep Politics Forum.

However, currently, you are behaving like a member of the Spanish Inquisition, intent on intimidating all those heretics who do not agree with your worldview into silence or repentance.

This will not do.

A very good case can most certainly be made that Osama Bin Laden died in 2001.

A very good case can also be made that he has been deliberately kept alive, as an iconic and impotent bogeyman, to be ritually slaughtered at a time of the West's choosing.

Both these possibilities, and others, are plausible and deserve intelligent, incisive, discussion on DPF.

So, kindly cease and desist from proclaiming that those who disagree with your judgement have fallen for a psyop.

Please allow discussion, investigation and research to continue.

Thank you.