&quot;Innocent until proven guilty&quot; only applies in a criminal trial. The man in question died in a shootout with police; he will never be proven guilty, because you can&#x27;t put a dead man on trial. You can&#x27;t libel or defame a dead man, from the point of view of the law.<p>There has to be a point where media can call someone a terrorist short of conviction in a court of law. You can argue that that point hasn&#x27;t been reached in this case, but there has to be a point, since otherwise we&#x27;d have to call Bin Laden an &quot;alleged terrorist.&quot;