DAVE TROWBRIDGE WONDERS if Osama bin Laden has pulled a Hari Seldon:

What if bin Laden recorded a series of “gloats” about various operations (planned, desired, or even merely likely) that, in the event of his death, could be hacked together to give the impression that he was still alive? Certainly the rhetoric wouldn’t change, just the names of the countries and the types of operations, both of which are not that large a set of possibilities. It seems to me that with a little imagination and not much more time expended, a set of recordings could have been produced that could keep Osama alive for years beyond his actual death, rendering him, in effect, undefeatable.

This wouldn’t surprise me at all.

UPDATE: This is old news to the blogosphere, but if you missed it earlier, here’s a story on the peculiar bin Laden / Asimov link.