Osama Bin Hidin

With the five year anniversary of the September 11 attacks around the corner, the whereabouts of Osama is still unknown. I've been trying to pick up the Internet trail on him for a while now, and it is an amusing journey. The first big rumour was that he escaped from the clutches of the US by bribing a corrupt Afghan official. One rumour is that he is deceased and buried in Iran. Of course the well known rumour is that Osama is tucked away on the Afghan-Pakistan border. That could be anywhere.
North Warizistan is a new region in my vocabulary and is also in the rumour list. The latest rumour is that he has taken a flight to Somalia.
Where ever he is, it will be difficult to track him down. The CIA has not been the same since the fall of the Berlin Wall. With the defeat of European Communism the US thought the business of Intelligence gathering was over and finances were cut.
Unfortunately the situation is probably more dire than the late eighties.
US and Western Intelligence had been working on the downfall of Communism for seventy years. It's only been a decade since they got stuck into Osama and Alqaeda.
Nose down, arse up and get to work. That's my message to the USA.