Bin Laden to die a martyr ?
<"In this final year I hurl myself and my steed with my soul at the enemy. Indeed on my demise I will become a martyr," the al-Qaida leader purportedly says.
"I pray my demise isn't on a coffin bearing green mantles. I wish my demise to be in the eagle's belly," he continues.
Bin Laden tape
This sounds to me like someone saying, we can't keep this pretext up forever, let's think up a good send off for the big guy that sounds better than dying in a cave.