All over the news today are unconfirmed reports that Bin Laden might actually be dead. Apparently somebody in the French government leaked a document to the press there, and it has stirred quite a ruckus. Nobody knows for certain, but the report suggests that Bin Laden may have died in August from typhoid fever. This makes a little bit of sense, considering he has been presumably living in a cave for the last five years, and in all likelihood drinking tainted water the whole time. There is no natural clean water left in the world.

It is amusing to me that such might be the case, since it implies that he has been drinking water tainted with human fecal matter. Certainly an un-martyr like way to meet one’s end. I would have expected a fellow like him to glorify himself by going down in a hail of gunfire. This might also explain why, if he is really dead, there has been no official news of it in the Islamic web community. There is no hero-like way to explain how somebody died from drinking shit water.

Well, if he’s dead, then that’s that. Good riddance. If he’s still alive, then that still doesn’t explain his reluctance to show himself. The last batch of videos were old re-hashed material. There was an audio recording, which may or may not be recent. But all of this came about the same time that this new report says that he may have died. It’s not sad because I don’t feel sorry for him. Stuff his filthy body under a rock somewhere in the wasted mountains of Eastern Pakistan. Anybody else would be worthy of a decent funeral.