whatever happened to osama bin laden? shouldn't we have caught him if our leaders really cared?

Question

the largest military with near unlimited resources and we can't get him? has this country forgotten what he did? when will we hold our leaders responsable for their failures?

Answer 1

Because if someone is hiding in Afghanistan with the blessing of the people there, that country is physically so foreboding that he may never be found. The Russians learned the lesson of trying to fight Afghanistan and wound up giving up after way too many deaths.

I think though, that less attention should be paid on him and more on where he is getting his resources (human and otherwise). Like cancer, you cut off the source and tumour dies. Just a thought.

Answer 2

Little known fact: Osama Bin Laden was trained by the United States in cryptography and finance, among other things at the Western Hemispheric Institute for Security Cooperation- a US military base funded by American taxpayer dollars. Bin Ladin attended the school repeatedly between 1979 and 1984 for training in covert operation.
This school has trained 60,000+ soldiers, International and American, since its start 55 years ago.
He may be crazy, but he's not completely stupid.
Couple this with the immense wealth at his disposal before he turned into a fanatic and the fact that he has an army of supporters who are willing to hide him and follow him.
Doesn't sound quite so easy does it?

Answer 3

Israel "cuts the top off the snake" each and each and every of the time - the purely effect being that the terrorist communities they objective get slightly angrier and a deputy chief or commander steps in. If the President were to abruptly die in an attack, would that spell the full for the united states? Hell no - a complete equipment is used to verify who will on the on the spot replace the fallen head of state might want to that take position. that is an same in the different huge, serious employer. No, taking pictures or killing Osama bin encumbered gained't spell the full for Al Qaeda. yet hi, does he not should get carry of justice for his crimes?

Answer 4

They dont care!


(Washington, DC) Judicial Watch, the public interest group that fights government corruption, announced today that it has obtained documents through the Freedom of Information Act (“FOIA”) in which the Federal Bureau of Investigation (“FBI”) has invoked privacy right protections on behalf of al Qaeda terror leader Osama bin Laden. In a September 24, 2003 declassified “Secret” FBI report obtained by Judicial Watch, the FBI invoked Exemption 6 under FOIA law on behalf of bin Laden, which permits the government to withhold all information about U.S. persons in “personnel and medical files and similar files” when the disclosure of such information “would constitute a clearly unwarranted invasion of personal privacy.” (5 U.S.C. § 552(b)(6) (2000))

Before invoking privacy protections for Osama bin Laden under Exemption 6, the FBI should have conducted a balancing “test” of the public's right to disclosure against the individual's right to privacy. Many of the references in the redacted documents cite publicly available news articles from sources such as The Washington Post and Associated Press. Based on its analysis of the news stories cited in the FBI report, Judicial Watch was able to determine that bin Laden’s name was redacted from the document, including newspaper headlines in the footnoted citations.

“It is dumbfounding that the United States government has placed a higher priority on the supposed privacy rights of Osama bin Laden than the public’s right to know what happened in the days following the September 11 terrorist attacks,” said Judicial Watch President Tom Fitton. “It is difficult for me to imagine a greater insult to the American people, especially those whose loved ones were murdered by bin Laden on that day.”



The redacted documents were obtained by Judicial Watch under the provisions of the FOIA and through ongoing litigation (Judicial Watch v. Department of Homeland Security & Federal Bureau of Investigation, No. 04-1643 (RWR)). Among the documents was a declassified “Secret” FBI report, dated September 24, 2003, entitled: “Response to October 2003 Vanity Fair Article (Re: [Redacted] Family Departures After 9/11/2001).” Judicial Watch filed its original FOIA request on October 7, 2003. The full text of the report and related documents are available on the Internet by clicking here (Adobe Acrobat Reader required).

Answer 5

amazing isn't it? Its almost like they don't want to catch him but yet drag this war on even longer so that we can drive our deficit even higher. Our goverment never seems to amaze me with some of the decisions they make anymore

Answer 6

Nah, Bush just closed the CIA office dedicated to catching him. As he said in the past "I really don't think about him anymore"...

Answer 7

Bush closed the counter terrorism Unit assigned the task of finding him.

a couple of days ago.
"now watch this drive............."

Answer 8

Think you could find me?

Answer 9

he went to s#it and the hogs ate him.