"The Pentagon knows exactly where Osama bin Laden is hiding in Pakistan, it just can't get to him, John Lehman, a member of the 9/11 Commission, said Thursday. [...] In the interview, Lehman noted, 'There is an American presence in the area, but we can't just send in troops. If we did, we could have another Vietnam, and the United States cannot afford that right now.' When pressed on why the United States couldn't send troops into the region to capture the world's No. 1 terrorist, Lehman said the Baluchistan region of the country is filled with militant fundamentalists who do not recognize the legitimacy of Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf, a close ally of the United States. [...] Asked how bin Laden was surviving, Lehman said he was getting money from outside countries, such as the United Arab Emirates, and high-ranking ministers inside Saudi Arabia. 'He is not a wealthy man," Lehman said. "We ran that information into the ground, and discovered he only receives about $1 million a year from his family's fortune. The rest of what he gets comes from radical sympathizers.'"
It appears that the Bush administration knows where bin Laden is and doesn't want to go get him; the Bush administration knows US ally Saudi Arabia is funding bin Laden and doesn't do anything about it; and the Bush administration considers the stability of Pakistan more important than bringing bin Laden to justice. Could it be that the wildest conspiracy theories about Bush having some connection to bin Laden and Saudi terrorists might be the weensiest-teensiest bit true?
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