Uncommon Commentary #179: "Kiss My Assassination!"

The al-Qaedists have acknowledged the demise of top terrorist Usama bin Laden, but why have they done so, when they could have instead availed themselves of the dearth of death-scene photographs to promote theories that he's yet alive?  There may be significance for us in the likely reason: they think that they stand to gain more from Moslem furor over his so-called assassination than from plausible denial that the US mission succeeded.