Hmm. Interesting theory, but quite flawed.
The bin Ladens are big business people, extremely rich and well connected to the Saudi royal family, major power brokers and other business leaders in the Middle East. Despite what you might think about them, due to their name, quite a few of the family still live in America with others in the UK and Europe. I’d imagine it would be diplomatically difficult to remove them since they will have been checked out by security services and made influential friends , invested money, been good citizens. In addition a lot of them denounced Osama’s actions of 2001, on top of disowning him due to the family’s royal connections and his encouragement of internal dissent against the Saudi monarchy.
Every family has its black sheep…

In other news…:

A man from Texas has been wounded after a bullet he fired at an armadillo ricocheted and hit him in the head, the local sheriff says.
The shooting incident took place in the Marietta area of East Texas.
Three shots were fired and at least one ricocheted off the shell.
The gunman was treated for a minor injury to the jaw, USA Today reports, but the small armoured creature has not been found and its fate remains unclear.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-33748027

If it moves, shoot it.

Gosh. Whatever gave you that impression?

Interesting info from Wiki, probably more a poor choice of words from a bad translation rather than what it appears to say, though…

Eleven months after the F-84 incident, the Soviet threat to shoot down any aircraft violating the border became real when a Hawker Sea Hawk of the Bundesmarine, piloted by Kapitänleutnant Knut Anton Winkler, was shot at by MiG-21 fighters when it accidentally crossed into East German airspace near Eisenach. Winkler, who had been returning from a training exercise on board USS Saratoga in the Atlantic Ocean, had to carry out an emergency landing at Ahlhorn, 45 km southwest of Bremen. The aircraft was eventually written-off. Winkler himself died less than four years later in a F-104 Starfighter accident on 10 May 1966.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1961_F-84_Thunderstreak_incident

Well, that’s the end of summer…

Recently acquired a new laptop running W8.1 and haven’t had any prompts at all about W10 – wish the same could be said of the 60 day trial Norton and its repeated reminders that it is a trial.

I’ll give the new show a chance. It’s free after all.

Free? Thought you were referring to Amazon for a moment, but then I realised you were talking about the Beeb and that you are a VOAP who gets his television license free of charge.

And I won’t be giving that to$$er a chance; wouldn’t give him the skin off a putrid rice pudding if he was starving to death.

…I would think the biggest obstacle in his path is JC’s enormous shadow…

More likely one massive ego trying to compete with its predecessors huge ego. Having met Evans, shortly after he tried (and failed) to sue Virgin Radio for sacking him (for repeatedly failing to turn up for work and claiming he was sick whilst still going on pub crawls – followed by the press who were invariably invited along), my opinion (whether you want it or not) is that he has always thought himself to be a media version of King Midas, but without the bad points. He has a habit of being enthusiastic about his projects but then losing interest in them when they have been running for a while, making demands to see how far he can push, before parting company with it. This trait even includes relationships and pets…

Just my opinion, as I said.