If Osama bin Laden is in Pakistan, why does our government allow Pakistan to harbon him? We attacked Afganistan in order to find him, to no avail. If we know he is there, why do we continue to say that Pakistan is an ally of the USA? If they are an ally, why would they not want help in finding this terrorist?

I think he's a figment of the Administration's imagination anymore. If in all these years, this guy can't be located by the FBI, CIA, etc., etc... then something is wrong. He's probably dead.

Where is DOG the BOUNTY HUNTER? He will catch him!

It's not about the money! Some Pakistani farmer neighbor that gets paid in cow dung has been waiting for the reward to go up?? Why not double the number of virgins they'll get in heaven from 72 to 144, instead?

This is idiotic.

If a turncoat isn't willing to turn Osama in for $25,000,000, it doesn't matter how many zeros the pinsuited pinheads in Washington add.

They have loyalty folks.. L O Y A L T Y

I'm surprised "Dog" hasn't been there looking....he could buy a mighty big bone with that $$$. I seriously doubt this nut job will ever be found...and if he is, there's a lot of openings for nut jobs and these guys are "dying" to take the job.

Osama is our Goldstein. We need an enemy to keep us diverted... someone to fear and hate, lest we start thinking about oil, pre-emptive wars, the Bill of Rights, the trillion dollars wasted on the sands of Iraq, ad infinitum, ad nauseum.

He is hiding in Crawford, TX with Secret Service protection.

Bin Laden is in Pakistan as everyone knows. He is free to do as he wishes there. He probably add a lot of money to their economy. Why would Pakistan ever want him out. That is why we can't go into that country. They don't want him amd his people to leave.

DOG the BOUNTY HUNTER can't get a visa.

Let's eliminate the threat to the world and civilization.

Since Zawahari has threatened an attack on the US and its allies - Why not use a nuclear weapon along the mountainous region of Pakistan-Afghanistan to eliminate the leaders of the Taliban, Al Qaeda and Chechen rebels?

Should we be sitting on our heels and possibly be attacked again? What does the Taliban, Al Qaeda and the Chechen rebels offer the rest of the society? No Taxes, No Healthcare, and No Peace

Within the moutainous area of Pakistan and Afghanistan has been described as harsh and dangerous! Using a nuclear weapon is eliminating the possibly worst threat to a civilized society!

Any thoughts?

Why not encourage an outsourced bounty hunting party by increasing spectacularly the pot for a private group to hunt him down operating beyond any laws like how the Pakistanis allowed the Taliban operate beyond their laws ?

Stephen - yes, I do indeed have a thought: YOU'RE AN IDIOT.

Our counter-productive military misadventures have already turned most of the civilized world against us. You think we're going to make everything safer by detonating a nuclear bomb in a civlian area?

Not only will it turn ALL Muslims against us (you understand, there are nearly a billion of them - including many in Indonesia and India that don't despise us now), but Europe, South America, Asia, and even Canada wouldn't stand for it.

Not to mention - no one even knows for sure where any of these guys are hiding. You want to just drop an atomic bomb and hope it happens to take out the bad guys?

There should be a requirement that you have a 3rd-grade education to post on this site.

How about this idea.... we adopt a fair and impartial mid-east policy?

Like that old "Cut and Runner", John Quincy Adams said...

"America, in the assembly of nations, since her admission among them, has invariably, though often fruitlessly, held forth to them the hand of honest friendship, of equal freedom, of generous reciprocity. Wherever the standard of freedom and Independence has been or shall be unfurled, there will her heart, her benedictions and her prayers be. But she goes not abroad, in search of monsters to destroy. She is the well-wisher to the freedom and independence of all. She is the champion and vindicator only of her own. She will commend the general cause by the countenance of her voice, and the benignant sympathy of her example. She well knows that by once enlisting under other banners than her own, were they even the banners of foreign independence, she would involve herself beyond the power of extrication, in all the wars of interest and intrigue, of individual avarice, envy, and ambition, which assume the colors and usurp the standard of freedom. The fundamental maxims of her policy would insensibly change from liberty to force.... She might become the dictatress of the world. She would be no longer the ruler of her own spirit....

[America's] glory is not dominion, but liberty. Her march is the march of the mind. She has a spear and a shield: but the motto upon her shield is, Freedom, Independence, Peace. This has been her Declaration: this has been, as far as her necessary intercourse with the rest of mankind would permit, her practice."

The money doesn't matter. And nuclear weapons would be an absolute mistake. Any use of nuclear weapons is an awful idea.

great question, why hasn't some group or well funded "patriots" just slipped in and killed this guy? Where is Ross perot when you need him/

We love the Pakistan because we love balace of power they must be eliminated(India) whereas Pakistani are just misunderstood. Poor Pakistani, Bin Ladin goes what will happen to it, would the Chinese be happy who occupies Pakistani territory, and who will supply all those drugs to America. After all these years Afghanistan remains number one in opium(heroin) production and that is the number one source of Bin Ladin’s money. What would we do without the drugs. Without the drugs, the Party may be over.

See it is very complex international politics and the reason why we have not caught Bin Ladin. Please, Remember Iran-contra etc.

from $25 million up to $50 million?? How about setting it at just ONE WEEK's cost of the Iraq war -- $2 BILLION??? Or one month's cost -- $8 BILLION. If we think the Iraq war is worth $2 BILLION per week, then Bin Laden's capture is easily worth as much, is it not? Apparently the Bush Administration doesn't think so.

Hey DC

You spell civilian like this! The fact is not all Muslims are against the US! I believe the Muslim extremist and radicals are against the US. There are many muslims within the borders of the US already. We have not had any suicide attempts from any of the so 2 million Muslims within the borders of the US!

I did not indicate the US should consider detonating a nuclear weapon in a civilian area, I commented the weapon should be used in the remote mountainous region of Pakistan-Afghanistan! Based on a risk analysis -the benefit of eliminating the Taliban and Al Qaeda far outweighs the cost of unleashing a nuclear weapon!

Would you rather have the Chechen rebels sell a nuclear weapon to Al Qaeda and have some Muslim suicide extremist set a nuclear device within the US?

A nuclear weapon ended WWII, wouldn't it be consistent it might end the reign of Al Qaeda, the Taliban and other terrorist groups?

Hey DC

You spell civilian like this! The fact is not all Muslims are against the US! I believe the Muslim extremist and radicals are against the US. There are many muslims within the borders of the US already. We have not had any suicide attempts from any of the so 2 million Muslims within the borders of the US!

I did not indicate the US should consider detonating a nuclear weapon in a civilian area, I commented the weapon should be used in the remote mountainous region of Pakistan-Afghanistan! Based on a risk analysis -the benefit of eliminating the Taliban and Al Qaeda far outweighs the cost of unleashing a nuclear weapon!

Would you rather have the Chechen rebels sell a nuclear weapon to Al Qaeda and have some Muslim suicide extremist set a nuclear device within the US?

A nuclear weapon ended WWII, wouldn't it be consistent it might end the reign of Al Qaeda, the Taliban and other terrorist groups?