The Associated Press – FBI Official Thinks bin Laden Dead:
The head of the FBI's counterterrorism effort thinks Usama bin Laden is dead.
The statement by Dale Watson marks the first time a senior U.S. law enforcement official publicly has given an opinion on the Al Qaeda leader's status.
Watson emphasized that he had no evidence that the suspected mastermind of the Sept. 11 attacks was dead. But his comments, which came Wednesday at a conference of local law enforcement officials from across the country, suggest the FBI has no direct intelligence that proves bin Laden is alive.
No kidding. I've had a suspicion for sometime now that he was either dead or secretly in U.S. custody. Either way, the Administration needed people to continue to believe he was out there in order to maintain popular support for the Forever War on Terror.