for the life of me i cant understand, why has BinLaden been captured yet???????!!!!!!!!!!!?

Answer 1

Because he isn't in Iraq.

Answer 2

Yeh seriously, I never got this one either. It seems for a while after 9/11, everyone was all gung ho about finding this f*cker. Then....all attention shifts to Iraq and Saddam. What about Bin Laden then....no more news stoires, nothing. OK maybe an occasional something about they got some underground tape with him making threats again. But what the hell did Saddam do that made us take our focus off this other prick in the desert? Can't find him? Come on... We've got enough bombs to blow Afganistan off the face of the earth....why don't we do that? I mean is there really anything thats useful over there besides desert anyway? Its just a hot, sandy breeding ground for psycho terrorists....lets make a new ocean where Afganistan used to be!!! WOOHOOOOO!!!!

Answer 3

The CIA was not set up to deal with the war on terror. It was set up to deal with actual countries like the Soviet Union. Neither the Clinton administration nor Bush administration made the neccessary changes (maybe no one would have.) From what I've read, the US had a pretty good chance to get Osama shortly after 9-11. Due to rivalries between the CIA and Pentagon (between Tenet and Cheney/Rumsfeld) this best chance was botched. The CIA thought they knew where he was at and requested troops to block the border. The request was denied.

Answer 4

"We have a variety of intelligence, and we're sure we're going to catch Osama bin Laden and [Taliban leader] Mullah [Mohammed] Omar this year," Army Lt. Col. Bryan Hilferty, spokesman for U.S. forces in Afghanistan, said in January. "We've learned lessons from Iraq, and we're getting improved intelligence from the Afghan people."
A few days earlier, Lt. Gen. David Barno, the top U.S. commander in Afghanistan, told the BBC: "You can be assured that we're putting a renewed emphasis on closing this out and bringing these two individuals to justice, as well as the other senior leadership of that organization. They represent a threat to the entire world, and they need to be destroyed."
Bin Laden is thought to be in the lawless tribal areas along the Pakistan-Afghanistan border. Officials say U.S. troops do not cross into Pakistan, leaving the hunt on the ground for bin Laden to the CIA and the Pakistan army.
But specific intelligence on bin Laden's whereabouts might prompt the use of a Delta-SEAL task force to raid his Pakistan hide-out, officials say.
Gen. John Abizaid, chief of U.S. Central Command, recently praised Pakistan President Pervez Musharraf's willingness to send troops into unfriendly tribal areas, where bin Laden reportedly is popular.
"I talk to him frequently," Gen. Abizaid said of Gen. Musharraf. "I just visited him the other day. I saw him after one of two assassination attempts. He knows that al Qaeda is trying to kill him, and he absolutely, positively wants to get the problem under control.
"But there are difficulties that he has that are associated with working in the tribal areas that he has to work through on his own," Gen. Abizaid said.

Answer 5

How long did it take for us to capture Eric Rudolph? And he was only in the NC mountains here in the States!

Answer 6

If the U.S. government wanted him captured, he'd be captured.

But he's worth more to them alive, as a boogeyman to keep Americans scared and willing to sacrifice a few freedoms for their "safety."

Answer 7

It may have something to do with the fact that we are not looking for him. He is just a pawn in this sick game our government is playing on the American psyche.

Answer 8

Pakitan is hiding him and Bush thinks otherwise.

Answer 9

Not enough troops on the ground during the original invasion.

Answer 10

Because, like the cockroach that he is, he is hiding under your bed.

Answer 11

The Bush administration isn't looking for him, otherwise he'd be caught by now! Reasons-oil, fear propaganda, and MONEY, honey!