Is Osama Ben Laden really dead?

WOW. Quite a few interesting comments all over the internet.

Perhaps it is tacky that Obama not wait till morning,
but rather in quite a Hollywood way, announce his
death in the early evening.Yes of course the government
does control the media, it must, and a lot of money and
a lot of power and control sure must exist at the very top
of the human political eco system. Is Bin Laden really dead?
Is Bin Laden even real? or some figment of our creation,
some ghost of terrorism to hypnotize the western world, and
of course the course of all mankind...Wow.