Via rc3, this report from a Pakistani newspaper that bin Laden is dug in at a ‘state-of-the-art’ military base in the Pamir, and that an advance party of US commandos are closing in on the heavily-defended site with ‘very hi-tech and not-yet-used-in-combat weapons’ like this

next-generation infantry weapon not supposed to be deployed for nearly another decade, and other sci-fi-sounding kit. It sounds like the reporter is just confusing the fantasy of some future-battlefield projections with current reality, but what do I know about armaments and munitions?