I know this question has been asked a thousand times, but it irkes me. The guy is 7 feet tall, in a sovereignty where the average height is 5'. Can't someone stand on top of a sand dune and point him out? And why are we going after Iraq, whaidtheydo, let Osama stay a few nights in a hotel room? I know, the oil. Then I open another can of worms about the Alaska wildforest deal. Why can't anyone get a straight answer? Because we're American, and we believe in our leader, the President. George W. Son of George. G - E - O - R - G - E. I know how to spell it, I just don't know when to stop. The Man who can guarantee we will be free from terrorism, as long as we keep believing sending our young to the front to be killed or wounded will eventually evolve into world peace. I would like a sensible answer. I'm not expecting one. I'm too tired and too disgusted to go looking all over the web for one. And if I get an answer, I'll be asking a few more questions. As should we all.
Did you ever consider that perhaps they don't want to find him? There is indeed plenty of evidence suggesting this, from executive orders prohibiting the capture of top al-Qaeda leaders, to the admission by Buzzy Krongard -- the CIA's former third most senior executive -- that the US government has no intention of capturing bin Laden, and that it would actually be better off if he wasn't captured. There were plenty of opportunites for the US to easily capture bin Laden in the late 90's, under the Clinton administation. Yet, he was never captured. How come? Hell, the Bush administration had the perfect opportunity to apprehend Osama in the summer of 2001 -- just months before the attacks -- when he was recovering from an infection in a US ARMY hospital in Dubai, UAE. According to the French news publication which published this information, not only was bin Laden receiving treatment in a US hospital, he also met with CIA agents at the hospital during his time there. I personally believe that bin Laden is dead. There are reports dating back to December '01 that bin Laden died from acute kidney failure, including an obituary in a Pakistani newspaper. Regardless, it is no mystery that bin Laden was extremely ill in late '01, due to kidney problems. But anyway, I believe bin Laden is nothing more than a scapegoat and fabricated boogeyman, and had absolutely nothing, whatsoever, to do with the 9/11 attacks. I don't believe for a second that he magically orchestrated the 9/11 attacks from his little cave, employing terrorists with BOX CUTTERS to crash planes they could not fly into two of the world's tallest buildings, with NO ATTEMPT of them being intercepted or shot down over the course of an hour from the time when the planes were allegedly reported being hijacked. As long as bin Laden's whereabouts are "unknown" -- whether he is dead or alive -- he still serves as the perfect CIA asset. So when we are mysteriously attacked again, we can just pin it on bin Laden, despite not having an ounce of evidence to link him to the attacks, as was the case with 9/11.
Bin Laden (like Al Zarqawi after him) is merely an "Emmanuel Goldstein" diversionary boogeyman to capture public attention and wrongly focus the entire public debate on proclaimed (but never actually proven) "external" threats. The real criminals who threaten our way of life sit in our governing institutions and the vast array of supporting institutions, agencies and organisations which underpin the entire fraud. Without constant myth creation and the substanceless manipulation of public perception, too many might actually start to notice this institutionalised betrayal of the nation and rise up against it. This is something the elites dare not allow. Business as usual in the American Empire.
Here's your sensible answer, although from the tone of your post it doesn't sound like you actually want one: There's no big evil plan behind America's failure to catch Bin Laden (on the contrary, I'm sure George Bush would consider it quite a feather in his cap to catch him). It's just plain incompetence. America should have got him at Tora Bora. But since they failed there, the Bush Administration has basically given up. I think one of the reasons (though by no means the only reason) the Bush Administration invaded Iraq was a political diversion from the failure to catch Bin Laden; in this way, he could claim that he was continuing the war on terrorism without actually wasting any more energy or political capital on the efforts to catch Bin Laden that were not likely to succeed.
Incompetence to the nth degree I assume. We can survey the Iraqi landscape with geosynchronous surveillance cameras and pinpoint a van allegedly containing biological warfare catalysts, not to mention bringing the turmoil of the CNN reporters who are desperately seeking a high-speed internet connection from their premier hotel suite situated in downtown Bagdad into our living rooms, but we can't find the one person who is supposedly responsible for thousands of innocent American deaths? I find the whole episode a bit unpalatable. Ok he's dead, he never existed, he's living in Bush's attic. Who knows. Who will know. Let's see that happened in 2001, when the government opens the books in 2051 then maybe we'll know. But there'll be someone there to shroud the facts in forensic rhetoric, just as they have with the Kennedy assassination. Yes I do want a sensible answer. I just don't expect one anytime soon.
Think about this – Why has no one been convicted of the anthrax bombings? The US thought it could capture Bin Laden, but it has been unable to bring to justice a terrorist in it’s own country with the full co-operation of it’s own people yet it thought it could capture a man from another country without the full co-operation of that county’s people.
Nah, they had plans for Iraq from before 9-11, right from the start of Bush's administration. it was a convenient diversion but that wasn't the purpose.
A president who cares.... "I don't know where bin Laden is. I have no idea and really don't care. It's not that important. It's not our priority." - G.W. Bush, 3/13/02 "I am truly not that concerned about him." - G.W. Bush, repsonding to a question about bin Laden's whereabouts, 3/13/02 (The New American, 4/8/02)
That's what I mean. I'm sure they had plenty of other reasons for wanting to take out Saddam, but they definitely used the Iraq war as a diversion from their failure to catch Bin Laden.
We can't capture him, because HE isn't spending Billions to rebuild what he bombs! He's got more cash on hand to hide!
The easy answer is that Osama is believed to be hiding in Pakistan in a region with many allies, and Pakistan won't allow U.S. troops inside their borders to look for him their. It's like me hiding an Easter Egg inside my house, but locking the doors to keep you out, and saying "Go find it". The other theory is that he's been dead for quite some time now, and the body never recovered. You did mention that the guy is like 7 feet tall, so it's also possible that he's playing in the NBA, but nobody noticed yet, because nobody watches the NBA.
Notice how Mr. Laden hasn't been in the news for quite some time now? Either he's dead, or they've given up and are hoping America will forget. And, by god, I think it's working. How can so many people be so goddamn ignorant?
