Been clueless for years on Osama Bin Laden locale, says Robert Gates

[witchcurlgirl]

Defense Secretary Robert Gates conceded Sunday that it's been "years" since the U.S. government has known where Al Qaeda mastermind Osama Bin Laden is hiding.

"Well, we don't know for a fact where Osama Bin Laden is," Gates said flatly on ABC's "This Week."

"If we did, we'd go get him."

Asked when the last time was that the U.S. had any good intelligence on the whereabouts of the terrorist thug behind the 9/11 attacks, Gates said: "I think it's been years."

The stark admission came after reports last week of a Taliban detainee in Pakistan who claimed Bin Laden had been in Afghanistan earlier this year.

Gates, who was President George W. Bush's defense chief from 2006 to 2008, said he could not confirm those reports.

He suggested the best estimates were that Bin Laden remains in the rugged, lawless region of North Waziristan, along the border between Pakistan and Afghanistan.

Gates said "we suspect" Bin Laden is hiding on the Pakistani side of the border.

National Security Adviser James Jones said on CNN's "State of the Union" that Bin Laden moves around a bit and is "sometimes on the Afghan side of the border, sometimes on the Pakistani side."

He added that, "We're going to have to get after that to make sure that [Bin Laden]... is either, once again, on the run or captured or killed."


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[Grimmlok]

oh please, he died long ago



There's been like 3 different, but similar, 'bin ladens' used in those videos since 2001

it's pretty obvious when compared side by side

[caramel]

Or maybe Osama just got nosejob and that is why he looks different?

[celeb_2006]

oh please, he died long ago



There's been like 3 different, but similar, 'bin ladens' used in those videos since 2001

it's pretty obvious when compared side by side

Word. He's dead Jim.

Again I have no problems in being proven wrong if he is in fact alive, but there's been no definitive proof of his existence.

A few days ago there was supposedly some guy that saw Laden earlier this year, but I think even Gates himself didn't put too much faith in it.

Laden is like the Kim Kardashian or Megan Fox of the terrorist world. Always wanting to be the focus of attention, fawning, and relevance. That in all these years he hasn't released a %1000 proof it's him video speaks volumes.

[Grimmlok]

Or maybe Osama just got nosejob and that is why he looks different?

then he also managed to reshape the rest of his face too.

[Grimmlok]

There was a great site, that had all the fake/real bin laden comparisons.. including one where the guy was sporting all kinds of jewelry and a flashy gold watch, forbidden by his brand of Wahhabist Islam.. and a bunch of other stuff.

[celeb_2006]

[YOUTUBE]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KeRuna9KJUc[/YOUTUBE]

[YOUTUBE]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HrHZb1mYV6M[/YOUTUBE]

[YOUTUBE]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jgtnLt_ASDo[/YOUTUBE]