for the record, it would be more accurate to say afridi helped the cia find bin laden's family. if, in fact, they needed help. at the time of the raid, osama, of course, had been dead for about 10 years, a victim of marfan's syndrome. (which is why nearly all his public utterances after december 2001 were relayed to the world via audio tape -- the few videos released were obviously and crudely performed by an impersonator -- and why the world's most wanted terrorist, a person of enormous value to the intelligence community if captured alive, instead had to be summarily "killed" and his "body" dumped at sea.) with afridi sequestered for life and with most of the seals who raided the compound now dead following a helicopter crash, the truth about the osama hoax may be safely buried, at least for our lifetimes.