Yes, Bin Laden was captured. To avoid risk to the election, the hundreds of people that would know WHEN he was taken have been eliminated. To avoid risk of the world finding out about all those people being eliminated, all of their friends and relatives have been eliminated. To avoid anyone noticing all those people being eliminated, the government has sent in clones to replace each and every one of them.
Seriously, the thought that they have Bin Laden held somewhere to pull out of a hat before the election is preposterous. If anything were being manipulated it would be that they already know where he is and are waiting to capture him, or he is dead and they will produce DNA in a few months. I'll say this again next week when someone announces he has been captured.
