Horatio - I agree with everything you said in your last post. Ferverently.
My greatest fear is that the Americans will go rushing in like a bull in a china shop looking for revenge. There has been a great deal of disquiet expressed by a number of agencies - including Europol and SIS - that Osama bin Laden is not the correct target and whilst he certainly has been involved in terrorist activities in the past, incorrectly targetting him for the recent events will backfire, badly - as happened before when the Americans wrongly blamed Libya for a bombing in Frankfurt, which resulted in an attack on Tripoli.
I saw a report recently that said that we're closer now to all out global warfare than at any time since August 1945. Chilling stuff.