Well, there’s a new video soon to be out of Bin Laden celebrating his 6th year anniversary of U.S. incompetance, and he’s dyed his beard for the occasion.

http://afp.google.com/article/ALeqM5jF-I3mpEsoYVjKQpyZgEH-BxV5Qw

Of course, we found out soon after the 9/11 attacks that when the administration said they had no prior warning of the attacks, that was a lie. On August 6, 2001, there was a presidential daily briefing titled, “Bin Laden Determined to Strike the U.S.” In it it said:

“We have not been able to corroborate some of the more sensational threat reporting, such as that from a —- service in 1998 saying that Bin Laden wanted to hijack a U.S. aircraft to gain the release of “Blind Sheikh” Omar Abdel Rahman and other U.S.-held extremists.

Nevertheless, FBI information since that time indicates patterns of suspicious activity in this country consistent with preparations for hijackings or other types of attacks, including recent surveillance of federal buildings in New York.”

http://www.cnn.com/2004/ALLPOLITICS/04/10/august6.memo/index.html

And according to the Washington Post, the U.S. government concluded that Osama bin Laden was present during the battle of Tora Bora, Afghanistan in late 2001, and according to civilian and military officials with first-hand knowledge, failure by the U.S. to commit U.S. ground troops to hunt him led to his escape and was the gravest failure by the U.S. in the war against al Qaeda. Intelligence officials have assembled what they believe to be decisive evidence, from contemporary and subsequent interrogations and intercepted communications, that bin Laden began the battle of Tora Bora inside the cave complex along Afghanistan’s mountainous eastern border.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/A62618-2002Apr16

However, the ironic thing is, Bin Laden has never been formally charged with any crimes linked to 9/11. Even the F.B.I. Wanted Posters of him fail to say anything about 9/11 but only link him to the 1998 African Embassy bombings. Of course we know he was involved because the World Trade Center towers were hit at the same time. He was first inspired to bring down the towers after watching some towers in Lebanon fall in it’s 1982 war with U.S.-backed Israel. But the truth is we never gained any hard evidence for it.

But what I would really like explained to me is the details behind why we can’t get Bin Laden without setting off a nuclear war with Pakistan.