Preliminary indications from U.S. officials

Preliminary indications from U.S. officials are that the bin Laden audio tape is authentic. If so, contrary to the position I have long taken, he isn’t dead after all. Time will tell, but if the voice is bin Laden’s, my view that he was killed in December of last year will be proved wrong. That would be too bad, but on the positive side, it would provide a real incentive for American troops to hunt him down and kill him.