The world has been waiting for my take on this Osama Bin Laden thing....I expect

As I write the situation is “fluid” as they say. Gone from a cowardly terrorist shooting from the cover of his wife's-soon-to-be-shot body whilst being filmed in glorious technicolour to an unarmed man being shot whilst putting up unspecified “resistance” (and there was no live streaming straight to the Whitehouse after all...was there a recording?).

The American politicians, spooks and PR-types are doing their best to take the shine off this (to them) good news story it seems.

Anyway at least we'll get to see the picture evidence soon.....oh wait, no we won't. Beginning to look like “burying his body at sea” might have been a mistake too – maybe better in the long run to put up with a few crazies laying flowers on his grave (hey, at least Homeland Security could keep tabs on them) than enabling the conspiracy theorists (“it wasn't him”, “he got away and is living in Zardari's basement”, “they still have the body – stuffed and mounted in the Pentagon...”).

Ah well, it was always going to be messy. It will be interesting (actually, probably depressing) to see what the net effect of this will be – will his killing lead to more deaths and violence than if he was allowed to quietly go the way of Lord Lucan and Shergar?