Osama: 'Got him! (sort of)'

"The exasperation of Porter Goss, the director of the US's Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), with Pakistan's role in the hunt for Osama bin Laden and other al-Qaeda members is evident from his remarks on bin Laden during an interview with Time magazine, which was carried this week."

"While the White House, the State Department and the Pentagon have been very generous in their praise of the cooperation received from Musharraf and the Pakistani military-intelligence establishment in the "war against terrorism", their positive perception of the Pakistani army's role is not shared by their officers at the field level - either by American army officers deployed in Afghan territory across the Pakistani border, or by US diplomats in Kabul, or by US intelligence officers posted in Afghanistan, as well as Pakistan."

"It is against this background that one has to see the comments of Porter Goss, which apparently reflect the exasperation of his own officers in the field. India has always said that Musharraf has not taken any action to dismantle the training infrastructure of pro-al-Qaeda Pakistani jihadi organizations in Pakistani territory. While this was not disputed by the US, it did not exercise adequate pressure on Musharraf to dismantle these camps because the US apparently felt that these were being used only to train jihadis to operate in J&K. The reported revelation by Hamid that these camps were also used to train jihadis from the Pakistani community in the US to operate in US territory has come as a shock to US agencies.

In his interview to Time, Goss made the following points: It is unlikely bin Laden will be brought to justice until "we strengthen all the links" in the chain in the US-led hunt for terror suspects. "In the chain that you need to successfully wrap up the war on terror, we have some weak links . When you go to the very difficult question of dealing with sanctuaries in sovereign states, you're dealing with a problem of our sense of international obligation, fair play. We have to find a way to work in a conventional world in unconventional ways that are acceptable to the international community." Asked if he had a good idea where bin Laden was, he said, "I have an excellent idea of where he is." "

http://www.atimes.com/atimes/South_Asia/GF22Df02.html

Of course they know where Bin Laden is. As long as the bogeyman is out there then Bush thinks we will all be afraid.