As for Bin Laden, I could really care less at this point. He's not in power, and TBH doesn't really matter for anything more than the semantics of bagging the WTC orchestrator.
How do you know that? There's nothing to indicate he still isn't running Al-Qaieda and that his connections and influence aren't still highly effective in keeping them going.
He didn't make any videotapes before 2001, did he?
I'm pretty sure he did, they just didn't get as much press.