Osama bin Laden is dead.....

Michael Ledeen on Osama bin Laden on National Review Online
And, according to Iranians I trust, Osama bin Laden finally departed this world
in mid-December. The al Qaeda leader died of kidney failure and was buried ...
http://www.nationalreview.com/ledeen/ledeen200601090808.asp

Michael Ledeen, National Review, January 9, 2006

"And, according to Iranians I trust, Osama bin Laden finally
departed this world in mid-December. The al Qaeda leader died of
kidney failure and was buried in Iran, where he had spent most of his
time since the destruction of al Qaeda in Afghanistan."

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In short, both demography and geopolitics make this an age of revolution, as President Bush seems to have understood. Rarely have there been so many opportunities for the advance of freedom, and rarely have the hard facts of life and death been so favorable to the spread of democratic revolution.

The architect of 9/11 and the creator of Palestinian terrorism are gone. The guiding lights of our terrorist enemies are sitting on cracking thrones, challenged by young men and women who look to us for support. Not just words, and, above all, not promises that the war against the terror masters will soon end with a premature abandonment of what was always a miserably limited battlefield. This should be our moment.

Faster. Please?

— Michael Ledeen, an NRO contributing editor, is most recently the author of The War Against the Terror Masters. He is resident scholar in the Freedom Chair at the American Enterprise Institute
http://www.nationalreview.com/ledeen/ledeen200601090808.asp