The Al-Qaeda leader's period of silence has been the longest since the September 11, 2001, attacks on the United States, offering no clues to the whereabouts or fate of a man who this year appears to have quietly slipped off the radar.
Bin Laden has not been heard of since a December 27, 2004, audiotape in which he anointed Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, Iraq's most wanted man, as Al-Qaeda's leader in the war-torn country.
The idea that bin Laden is not communicating so as not to get caught doesn't wash. He could still make a video tape and have it delivered by hand to al Jazeera. Unless he is dead or being hounded so relentlessly that he doesn't dare take time out to make one.
Either way works for me.
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