<...In one sense Osama remaining free but unable to ply his trade and continue to remain free may be the most poetic punishment possible for a man for which no punishment is adequate.

You could be right. Like I said below, he's made a very big enemy. He must get the shakes every time he picks up a telephone. And just how good ARE those U.S. spy satellites? The man probably can't even walk under the sky without fear. And everytime he looks at one of his many "comrades," or just some stranger on the street that would know his face, that multimillion dollar reward on his head must come uncomfortably to mind. And the news of the Robot Plane From Nowhere that just blew some of his buddies away must have reached him by now.

Even if he never does anything but hide for the rest of his life, the guy is going to end up a complete basket case.