I guess I used too many words. I will try to keep it shorter.But I clearly stated that they had him cornered and that seems to have escaped your attention. See what Kerry said about the Tora Bora incident please - an internet search will yield his statement for you if you don't believe me.

There is a bounty, but there is a bigger reason why they don't take/capture Bin Laden when they had the chance.

You say that they will catch Bin Laden this year, even though they had a chance and did not take him then.

And the favoured treatment the Bin Laden family gets, all those connection to the Bush Family businesses, the flights out of America on the day after 9-11. What will it take to get you to see that the Bin Laden and Bushes are friends, partners? Osama BinLaden is the black sheep and not connected to Bush, but his family is, and that imples more than you want to know I guess.

Below are a few reports you might please read.

And sure, Osama may be caught, I have seen where his capture is being delayed until just before the election.

Karlin
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quote:
"According to Mike Ruppert, an expert on CIA involvement with the drug trade: "Historically, it is extremely well documented that Osama bin Laden is and was a creation of the Central Intelligence Agency in the 1980's when he joined with Mujahedeen Freedom fighters in Afghanistan. He worked with Gulbadin Hekmatyar who was running six heroin factories under CIA protection in Pakistan and Afghanistan.
This may explain why they didn't "catch" him in Afghanistan."
[- search "Osama Bin Asset" on the internet, I cannot find the actual link]



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"As early as 1964, George H.W. Bush, running for the U.S. Senate from Texas, was labeled by incumbent Democrat Ralph Yarborough as a hireling of the sheik of Kuwait, for whom Bush's company drilled offshore oil wells. Over the four decades since then, the ever-reaching Bushes have emerged as the first U.S. political clan to thoroughly entangle themselves with Middle Eastern royal families and oil money. The family even has links to the Bin Ladens — though not to family black sheep Osama bin Laden — going back to the 1970s. "

In fact, there are strong ties between bin Laden and the US government:

The Bin Laden family are close business associates of George W. Bush; see Paul Thompson's Saudi timeline.
As recently as 1995, Bin Laden was known to be working in cooperation with the US government, supplying arms to Muslim fighters in Bosnia. The US Senate Republican Policy Committee explicitly names the US government as a partner of Osama bin Laden in covert arms sales to Bosnia through Croatia.
Bin Laden has maintained a close relationship with the Pakistani Secret Service, a subsidiary of the CIA.
Many of the hijackers either lived on US Military bases, or had trained at US Military facilities; see HijackersPatsies

Osama bin Asset?

For someone alleged to be the mastermind behind the bombings of US embassies in Africa, the US government seemed very uninterested in arresting him. According to Mansur Ijaz, the Muslim American who organized an unofficial communication channel between Sudan and Clinton's administration, Clinton and his aids ignored several opportunities to seize Osama bin Laden. Sudan's president offered the Americans a plan to seize and extradite terrorist number one, as well as the information about the global network, established by the Egyptian Islamic Jihad, Iranian Hizballah and Palestinian Hamas. "The silence of the Clinton administration in respond to these offers was just stunning," Ijaz wrote.

www.commondreams.org/views04/0111-01.htm