The Jagular
Read the winnie the pooh book "king of the beaties" in which Tigger makes a fake jagular to scare all the other animals, then he "catches it" and keeps it caged 'til they make him king. Then whenever anybody steps out of line he rattles the cage to re-enforce the idea that they need his protection. I don't doubt that bin-laden has been dead for several years, but has been kept "alive" to be the jagular of whichever Tigger happened to be in office to keep us scared into supporting more and more govt "security" to take away more liberty. Terrorists, crime (organized or random), healthcare, the list goes on. The politicians seem to have a never-ending list of jagulars to fuel their protection racket. If they can't keep us scared of some big outside "THEM" then they try to get us afraid of each other, when big govt is really the terrorist!