SUICIDE BY SEAL TEAM -- NOT!

I have a question.  Not a very intelligent one, but a question nonetheless.
Now that Osama bin Laden tried to fight his way out of the imperial style compound in which he lived, how is Al Qa-ida going to recruit suicide bombers?  Are the young people in those parts of the world so dense that they won't be able to come to the conclusion that if the leader didn't want to die for his cause, why should they?
Some years ago I was watching a discussion on KPBS in San Diego about how to stop airliner hijackings.  It was being led by a professor from Harvard and he had two experts in the field of airliner security as commentators and facilitators of the discussion.  One from the CIA and one from Israel.  At one point during the discussion of whether or not to have armed plainclothes agents on airplanes, the question was raised from the audience in this manner:  "Why do you think that armed agents would deter the intent to hijack an airliner if the hijackers are willing to die for their cause?"  The expert from Israel answered simply, "They are not willing to die.  Since we killed the first one in a hijacking attempt, we have had no incidents."  When he spoke these words, it had been 6 years since the last hijacking attempt on an Israeli airliner.  This program ran through my head today as I was thinking of bin Laden.  He wasn't ready to die.  I wonder how many people have been crying for him.                  
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My 67 year old brother-in-law is scheduled for open-heart surgery at 7:00 AM San Diego time, May 4, 2011. The past week has been a saga of wide screen proportions for us.  Since Cecil B. DeMille is no longer among us, we stick to our humble digital cameras and hope that the battery will hold up.  All wry humor aside, we beg for your prayers of intercession for the doctors, nurses and other professionals who will make up the Operating Room team.  Please pray also for the sure and long lasting recovery of the patient, Carlos by name.
There are at least a dozen angles to this story, but I'll spare you.  Just imagine one of your own and enjoy it.  That's it for now.  If nothing else encroaches on my path, tomorrow I'll tell you about an interesting character who came back into my life a few days ago after at least 18 - 20 years.