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Jason asked in Politics & GovernmentPolitics · 1 decade ago

Do you think the United States knows where Osama bin Laden is?

50 of the 52 key al-Qaeda terrorist leaders handed to United Nations soldiers in the form of a deck of cards have been killed or aprehended.

As advanced as our military is and the fact that the majority of these key terrorists have been killed has recently led to an interesting theory. Is it probably that the United States knows the location of bin Laden and will "miraculously" locate him right as the Bush cabinet is about to leave office, in time for 2008 elections? After all, we did find Saddam in a hole in a wall in a small Iraqi village in 2003. Subsequently, that was just enough time for Republicans to campaign his capture for the 2004 elections.

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  • 1 decade ago
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    Great question. Yes we do know were Osama is. We also know the cost to kill Osama is too high.He is in Pakistan. Pakistan has made it clear we cannot hunt him down in Pakistan.If Bush should send in troops the army may consider this an act of war.How much control Musharraf has is a day by day deal.We are able to buy Musharrar but the army maybe not. Yes Pakistan has nukes! New rule do not kick butt, if butt will kicks back.

  • 1 decade ago

    Generally, I think the US government does know where to look. The problem is that it's in Pakistan. Maybe had the coup NOT happened in 1999, it would have been possible to have hunted down bin Laden in Pakistan after 9/11 and the ousting of the Taliban from Afghanistan. However, since bin Ladin appears to be hiding out in very extremists areas of Pakistan, and Pakistan is an Islamic state, the President of Pakistan is unwilling to 1) allow the US to operate in the area bin Ladin is in, or 2) go in and get him themselves.

  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    No the geography of region they're hiding is extremely rough mountainous region. All the high tech gizmo don't do you good when they have networks of rabbit holes under rugged mountains stretching many miles. Also remember those 52 key leaders is kind of out dated as Al Queda don't just sit with same group of people forever. They recruit and make changes to leadership positions like any other organizations.

  • ?
    Lv 4
    4 years ago

    a similar reason he went to Afghanistan and fought the Russians. they don't hate us because we are loose. They hate us because our authorities is occupying muslim land. They hate us because the U.S. and Israel are appearing like another crusading military that has tried to evict them from the holy land. They hate us because our authorities preaches democracy even as it seeks to act as a international dictator. human beings opt for to assert that the jews should be God's chosen human beings because they exist inspite of the various attacks hostile to them, besides the undeniable fact that a similar is genuine of the descendants of Ishmael. they have been attacked repeatedly by so-referred to as Christian crusaders appearing in the call of Zionism and nonetheless they proceed to be. If China or Russia attacked a state in this u . s . a . and then began progression military bases and appearing like a dictator right here we would want to upward thrust up hostile to them a twin of those muslims are increasing up hostile to our authorities. pay interest to Bush sometime. He even says, " ...they opt for topersistent us out of the middle east...." it truly is there land!!!! we haven't any corporation there in the first position and that i do not blame them for needing us out of there.

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  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    i think it is a joke if they say that they dont !!!! we have things like google earth where we can peep into houses of people all the around the world ....now looking for osama bin laden is a baby game!!!

    they have too many hidden agendas ...what you see is what you see and what you see is not what you see!!!!

  • djm749
    Lv 6
    1 decade ago

    We have people in the military who can find anyone at anytime. We definitely know where he is if he's alive. I used to work with these people.

  • 1 decade ago

    Obviously we do, but it would be bad for the war machine to end the war on terror and cut the profits! check out the link

  • 1 decade ago

    So do I. He has been spotted at Starbuck's in Crawford, Texas having a latte!

  • 1 decade ago

    Yep, I think so. And probably right here in theUSA.

  • 1 decade ago

    IT SURE WOULDN'T SURPRISE ME IF THEY DID AND ANNOUNCE IT RIGHT BEFORE THE 2008 PRESIDENTIAL ELCTION.

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