Why is Bin Laden not wanted by the FBI?

Question

Here's what FBI spokesman Rex Tomb stated on June 5, 2006

“The reason why 9/11 is not mentioned on Usama Bin Laden’s Most Wanted page is because the FBI has no hard evidence connecting Bin Laden to 9/11.”


Contact the FBI Headquarters urself: [phone],

Not most FBI's most wanted 'terrorist' but the FBI top ten wanted period.

Answer 1

They don't want to waste time chasing a dead man.

Answer 2

Below is a link to the FBI's most wanted list. You will notice that Bin Laden IS on the list, and has been for several years (since 1998).

The quote you cite simply tells why 9/11 is not mentioned on the Bin Laden most wanted page. It does not say that Bin Laden was removed from the list.

Seriously, don't you even check on your sources before you post your "questions?"

Answer 3

I was in the Army several years ago and we had to go to classes and learn about different terrorists and Bin Laden was a hot topic. This was before 9/11. He is definitely on the FBI's most wanted list. We even had posters up of Bin Laden in Korea saying what he was wanted for.

Answer 4

They may not for three reasons: One, because the CIA has gathered up all that evidence (foreign evidence) and hasn't shared it.

Two, there IS no hard evidence. It's like with Capone, they could NEVER get evidence of his hand in murders. Everyone knew it, but without the evidence, where can you go with it?

Three, they have the evidence, but have not brought to a grand jury, because it is top secret, and so they do not legally "have" the evidence.

PS: He IS wanted by the FBI. The question was regarding why the 9/11 attacks are not on his "Most Wanted" poster. He ABSOLUTELY is wanted by the FBI.

Answer 5

Are you sure about that?
According to these links, he's on the list:
http://www.fbi.gov/wanted/topten/fugitives/laden.htm
http://www.fbi.gov/wanted/terrorists/terbinladen.htm
Granted, they do not mention 9/11 specifically, only stating: "In addition, Bin Laden is a suspect in other terrorist attacks throughout the world."


According to this article, dated June 7, 1999:
"Two elusive murder suspects -- suspected terrorist Osama bin Laden and James Kopp, recently charged with the murder of an abortion provider -- were added Monday to the FBI's "Ten Most Wanted" list."
http://www.cnn.com/US/9906/07/fbi.most.wanted.01/

The reward was $5 million in 1999, it's now $25 million. Apparently the FBI wants him even though Bush doesn't anymore:
-- Sept. 17, 2001 - Remarks by the President to Employees at the Pentagon:
http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2001/09/20010917-3.html
"I want justice. There's an old poster out west, as I recall, that said, "Wanted: Dead or Alive."
-- Sept 11, 2006 - President's Address to the Nation:
http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2006/09/20060911-3.html
"No matter how long it takes, America will find you, and we will bring you to justice."
-- Sept. 13, 2006 - Inside the Oval Office: President Bush gives journalists a "heads up" about the mid-term elections, among other things.
http://www.weeklystandard.com/Content/Public/Articles/000/000/012/696wnfcp.asp
"This thing about . . . let's put 100,000 of our special forces stomping through Pakistan in order to find bin Laden is just simply not the strategy that will work."

Answer 6

Some convenience store chain brokered a deal that if Bin Laden agreed to work the evening shift, four nights a week, the FBI would take the heat off and drop him from the list.

Answer 7

The FBI takes on people on american soil,the CIA takes care of foreign trouble makers

Answer 8

Get your facts straight before making yourself look foolish.

Answer 9

b/c he's wanted by the prince of darkness, and his time is DUE

Answer 10

Your information is incorrect.