Questions, questions - UPDATED

Right, so a guy who's evaded capture for nearly ten years is finally tracked down and killed by a US special forces team the existence of which the US government refuses to confirm, and which manages to identify the body by means of a DNA test (oh boy, Jeremy Kyle must be rueing the lost opportunity there) conducted at a speed that must have every police department in the world salivating in envy, before promptly weighting the body down and chucking it overboard at a so far undisclosed location. I'm not saying that that it couldn't or didn't happen that way - I'm not a 'truther' and use only moderate amounts of tinfoil - but it's not exactly the most convincing narrative, is it? It's sure as hell not going to convince anyone who thinks there was any more to the September 11th attacks than crashing aircraft and incompetence.

Meanwhile, the von Mises blog proves the point I made yesterday, that this will almost certainly mean no increase in liberty for citizens in 'free' nations and if anything may well mean even less (quoting en bloc):

Via ESPN Chicago:

CHICAGO — In the aftermath of the death of Osama bin Laden, the Chicago Bulls will use metal detectors to screen all patrons entering the United Center before Game 1 of the Eastern Conference semifinal against the Atlanta Hawks on Monday.

I’m sure this is just a temporary security measure until we apprehend bin Laden. Wait a minute…

Quite. We have always been at war with Eastasia terror, or at least we soon will have.

UPDATE - and shooting back while using his wife as a human shield too. Again, I'm not saying it didn't happen that way, but doesn't it sound to anyone else like these preconceptions - cowardice, misogyny and, somewhat strangely for a coward, a willingness to fight to the death - are gilding the lily just a bit?