Bush's fatwa decreeing that bin Laden MUST be captured before he descends the royal throne

[Amerigo Vespucci]

The Fred Barnes link: http://thinkprogress.org/2006/09/14/barnes-osama/

The White House Press Conference link: http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2002/03/20020313-8.html

[smoogatz]

1. 5 to 2 he's alive and well in Waziristan,

with the blessing of the ISI. Bush obviously knows this, but can't reveal that he knows it without being put in the awkward position of having to pressure Musharraf to either capture/kill bin Laden or let American spec-for guys do it. Musharraf can't do either because if he does the ISI will shoot him and install another one just like him. Nobody can tell the truth about any of it because it amounts to Pakistan harboring bin Laden with Bush's permission, which, though true, is Crazy Talk that no one on teevee is allowed to say, ever, no matter what.