base on the tone of the media, this time seems to be very real that he is dead. Unlike before, the media referred cave story as speculations.
Basically for the first time in last 10 years, this is the first time the main media publicly admit bin laden was an enemy of sadam (rather than an ally as portrayed by former administration) and how he is an enemy towards other islamic countries including saudi arabia after he got kicked out from there. It looks like the media believe he is so dead this time that there is no need to hide the truth for the agenda of our government in relation to him.
http://www.cnn.com/video/#/video/world/2011/05/02/mann.bin.laden.obit.cnn
i believe he is dead.