It is said when El Cid died he was dressed in full armor and strapped onto his horse to lead his troops into battle one last time...Well, at any rate, that's how Charleton Heston played it in the movie.

The impression we get is Bin Laden's some sort of terrorist Howard Hughes. Of course, maybe that's precisely the impression we're supposed to get. The PsyOps mission is to dismantle his image as a wily and invulnerable desert warrior and prophet, a leader of men and a visionary of his god and people.

They will begin to take apart the image Bin Laden and his followers have been carefully crafting since his days fighting the Soviets. From the available material, a new persona will emerge and be marketed, He will be either painted as a bloodthirsty fiend, a coward, an ineffectual recluse, a perverse old degenerate; a combination of what can be done and what will be the most useful. And of course, a different image will be presented here for us, that of an active and busy revolutionary, on top of his terror organization and hard at work planning more mischief: a dangerous man we took out not a moment too soon.

Mua'Dib, Mua'Dib...