Where in the world is Osama Santiago??

The US President, George Bush says stopping Osama bin Laden from attacking America again is the "greatest challenge of our day", but it was only a "matter of time" before the al-Qaeda leader was captured.

During the swearing-in-ceremony for the new Homeland Security chief, Michael Chertoff, Mr Bush, who rarely mentions bin Laden by name, confirmed bin Laden had contacted Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, the terrorist leader in Iraq.

He was commenting on earlier intelligence reports that bin Laden had asked Zarqawi to help plan new attacks in US.

"We're on a constant hunt for bin Laden", Mr Bush said. "We're keeping the pressure on him, keeping him in hiding. And today, Zarqawi understands the coalition and Iraqi troops are on a constant hunt for him as well."

"We're on a constant hunt for bin Laden", Mr Bush said.

"Who Is Fighting al-Qaida other than Pakistan?"

Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf rules a country on the front lines in the war against terror. For years he has walked the difficult tight-rope of pacifying a Muslim population and maintaining a close alliance with the US. SPIEGEL spoke with him about anti-Americanism, the hunt for Osama bin Laden and whether Iran should be allowed to go nuclear.

SPIEGEL: Pakistan has often been criticised by the West for only hunting down Osama bin Laden half-heartedly. What is your response to that?

Musharraf: I'm very annoyed, frankly. Who is fighting al-Qaida other than Pakistan? It is only Pakistan which has eliminated over seven hundred terrorists from cities and over three hundred or four hundred from the mountains. During the war in Afghanistan, al-Qaida shifted and they came into Pakistan and we bagged something like over two hundred or two hundred and fifty of them in the initial stage.

The CIA officer who led the first US unit into Afghanistan after the September 11 attacks says he was ordered to bring back Osama bin Laden's head on ice.

Gary Schroen and his six-member CIA team arrived in the Panjshir Valley in Afghanistan two weeks after September 11.

"What [Cofer Black, head of the CIA's counter-terrorist centre] said [was], 'I would like to see the head of bin Laden delivered back to me in a heavy cardboard box filled with dry ice, and I will take that down and show the President. And the rest of the lieutenants, you can put their heads on pikes'," Mr Schroen said on Wednesday.


But instead, they just let him get away. More useful alive?

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The CIA officer who led the first US unit into Afghanistan after the September 11 attacks says he was ordered to bring back Osama bin Laden's head on ice.

Gary Schroen and his six-member CIA team arrived in the Panjshir Valley in Afghanistan two weeks after September 11.

"What [Cofer Black, head of the CIA's counter-terrorist centre] said [was], 'I would like to see the head of bin Laden delivered back to me in a heavy cardboard box filled with dry ice, and I will take that down and show the President. And the rest of the lieutenants, you can put their heads on pikes'," Mr Schroen said on Wednesday.


But instead, they just let him get away. More useful alive?

Osama the Baptist?

Bruce Willis offers $1 million for Osama bin Laden
Posted by: Paul Heath
Source: AP
Date: 15th November, 2005

Actor Bruce Willis has put a $1 million bounty on information leading to the capture of al-Qaeda terrorist Osama Bin Laden and his close allies.

He told US chat show host Rita Cosby: "I want to live in a world - and so do the Iraqi people - where they can move from their homes to the market and not have to fear being killed. Doesn't everybody want that? Who doesn't want that?"

Willis famousely offered the same amount for the capture of Saddam Hussein.

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