there is no difference to him; he wants both you and Mike dead.

Tactically, he recognises there are differences between you, and wishes to use them to his best advantage.

bin Laden is not some ill-educated mountain peasant with a rifle and a bomb. He is a well educated intelligent man. He spent years living in the West. I think you are greatly underestimating him.

God knows the US military did when they tried to corner him in Tora Bora.