Bring on those bin Laden conspiracy theories!

Well you knew this was coming. From the WSJ:

Afghanistan's Taliban movement, which hosted bin Laden and al Qaeda until the U.S. invasion of 2001, Tuesday night challenged President Barack Obama's account. "The Americans have not shown any credible evidence of Sheikh Osama's death, and his death has not been confirmed or denied by the sources close to Osama bin Laden," the Taliban said in their first official reaction to the killing.

In Abbottabad, many locals argue that Sunday's raid was a fake designed to embarrass Pakistan and bolster Mr. Obama's re-election chances. "They're just making it up. Nobody has seen the body," scoffed Owais Khan, a local lawyer. He argued bin Laden would never have chosen Abbottabad, a wealthy, army-dominated town just 40 miles from Pakistan's capital, as a hideout.

Of course, there's been a long-standing belief among some that bin Laden never even existed. "To be honest, I've never been convinced that there was such a person," said Osama al-Obeid, a Saudi banker.