As I said in the recent Al-Queda thread, even if he is dead--- (which I gather from some of the comments here is not quite established, to put it mildly--it makes little difference. It's only as if the CEO of McDonalds were to die---there are still plenty of franchises all over the world. Probably a lot more since Bush invaded Iraq--with the resulting pictures of dead women and children available for broadcast on al-Jazeera---as I told the White House comment line even before the invasion.