So why did they wait ten years before deciding to lie about finding and killing him?

( JessAction Give me all your expensive brandy and hubcaps., Mon 2 May 2011, 21:41, 2 replies)

No idea, and it is odd.
But they seem to have gone to great lengths to make sure that nobody can prove they killed him -- which is even odder.
They didn't have to hand the body over to Al Jazeera so they could, rightly or wrongly, start questioning whether it really was him -- but to not even give it to a more neutral ally for complete analysis just makes them either liars or incompetent. Either way I'm not sure why anyone would take their word for it.
(Me, I'm not... in any way intoxicated, Mon 2 May 2011, 22:33, closed)

I'm not one for conspiracy theories and the tin-foil-hat brigade....
But I guess the most I could believe is that he died of natural causes at some point and intelligence has only just been able to confirm it for certain - but as that seems a bit anti-climatic they've had to stage a raid and quickly "dispose" of the body to maintain an air of "AMERICA... FUCK YEAH!!!!" about it and somehow justify the thousands of lives and trillions of dollars. Not saying I do believe that, but if there were a conspiracy, I doubt it would be any more sinister than that.
(The_Mighty_Spleen, Mon 2 May 2011, 23:54, closed)