Quote Originally Posted by wiggin View Post
To an extent, it enhances deterrence. It also may have some operational consequences for Al Qaeda. Otherwise, not much.
Deterrence? It takes ten years for the most powerful nation in the world to find their most wanted person - that doesn't sound very deterring to me to be honest.
Quote Originally Posted by Timbuk2 View Post
... and since this operation had been planned for quite some time, you can bet there'd be the appropriate apparatus set up to confirm the identity of their man.
..or at least the appropriate apparatus to fake it