Terrorism

Pakistan's Funniest Bin Laden Home Videos

The Pentagon released a strategic array of Bin Laden home videos seized at the terrorist's compound in Abbottabad. I say "strategic" because I'm fairly certain they were chosen to portray Bin Laden in a ridiculous light -- dying his beard, channel surfing a TV propped on top of an Ikea computer desk, and fumbling his video speeches. It sends a subtle but obvious message to al-Qaeda members that Bin Laden was a bit of a preening dilettante.

Sadly, no videos of Bin Laden getting thwacked in the nuts with a wiffle bat. But you can expect lots of YouTube mashups of this footage.