Why is Osama Bin Laden still a free man?
466009
If Osama is caught, then the Bush administration won't have the war on terror to hang over the American people. He uses Osama to be able to get away with wars, and phone taps, and invasions of privacy. He needs to keep the people in fear.
658917
Osama bin laden isn't a terrorist. he's a CIA agent, and a CIA funded patsy.\n\nnone of them are leaders they are all illuminati f**k puppets, you can add every president and prime minister to that list, there are all sporn of satan.\n\n'It doesn't matter who you vote for, the goverment still gets in'
563619
Osama is there or not only God Knows.But there are many Osamas Fighting for injustice,fighting for freedom fighting for peace in the Afghanistan.The media is controlled by US.So they show everything in one or other way favouring USA.So we cannot see the ground reality.Usama alone cannot do anything.
418241
Apparently Clinton and his advisors looked at Osama and his merry band as a law enforcement problem instead of a military problem.  This concept is enforced by Clinton's own words saying he didn't beleive he had the legal authority to take custody of OBL when he was offered up on at least two seperate occasions.
708819
It is more important that stability is built in Iraq.  We want Bin Laden, but he's just one guy.  In fact, Kaleed Sheik Muhammad, the actual mastermind of 9/11 has been captured years ago.  Bin Laden is just money and a figurehead.  He is dangerous and needs to be captured, but it is more important that stability is brought to the middle east.
1028402
Well, we didn't find Osama bin Laden.  We bombed a lot of innocent Afghanis to death.  We got rid of the Taliban as the official leaders - they were very religious and repressive (especially against women).  That gave women more freedom, like the opportunity to go to school and work.  But it also opened up Afghanistan to the heroin growers and shippers that the Taliban had put out of business - most of the US heroin supply now comes from Afghanistan.
455889
Bush is a uniformed terrorist.\n\nBin Laden is trying to fight against the unjust laws of US, The double standards, racism and discrimination.\n\nPeople think Bin Laden is a terrorist which he is not.\nPeople think Bush is not a terrorist which he is.
507665
Of course! Don't forget than Osama Bin Laden was trained in the USA in the early 80's. The american government needed a motive to declare the so-called "war against terrorism". And to succeed that it sacrificed its own people...
166979
I think that is an excellent question and it deserves alot of attention based on logic. However, terrorist are not jealous of or hate freedom (yet one could make the same argument about them, does their action in a war, especially targeting civilians destroy freedom as well? Yes.), Bin Laden's chief complaint is that the US military sat in Saudi Arabia for twelve years and he interpreted that as a dominanting occupying force. There are many other examples that support how the terrorists feel as if they are freedom fighters fighting oppression, and quite frankly if they are right or not doesn't matter. Its the fact that they see themselves as defenders of freedom and they can not therefore be jealous of or hate freedom.
532922
Nonsense, Osama bin Laden's intelligence and elloquence has been beefed up by many in the media. Other less biased sources such as the veteran BBC correspondant John Simpson have described him as childish by nature and slightly unstable mentally. There is also no reason to suspect that he is acting on behalf of the US government, his practice is consistant with the general Islamic resurgance in the Arab world.
1015078
Silly man! There are no terrorists, only those "freedom fighters" valiantly standing against our evil nation. Why, we should bow on our knees and beg their forgiveness. 9/11 was our fault, and no ones elses...why just ask Congressman Murtha.\n\nYou see, its because of years of oppression by the American devils. We must repent our sins, and ask Osama to forgive us. Maybe we can give him some free government entitlements to appease him and his fellow freedom fighters. \n\nWe must have a Million Man Freedom Fighter March in Washington. It can be led by Murtha, Cindy Sheman, Kerry, Gore, Kennedy (he'd want free drinks), and, of course, the "Rev." Jesse Jackson. We can prostate ourselves at Osama's feet, and ask him, in the name of "a"llah, to forgive our sins. Pray that he doesn't behead us for being infidels...Osama we're sorry!
272286
I don't know why you refer to him as a "hope of America" unless you consider his Jihad against the Soviets in 1980s Afghanistan.  The Jihadists then were nominally allied with the US against the Soviets and we supplied them with small amounts of arms (advanced Stinger heat-seeking anti-aircraft missiles being the most famous weapon).  He turned against the US when he returned to Saudi Arabia (his homeland) and found western (mostly US troops) in the country.  Since Mecca, the holiest Islamic site, is within Saudi Arabia, Osama was outraged that westerners, who he already didn't like, were in his holy country.\n\nSee the source for a short history/background info on Osama bin Laden.
551641
None. It’s not his decision or his right, or that on anyone else's with a God complex.  He's a wealthy Saudi man who didn't fit in.  No one appointed him the representative of anyone.  The only way I could see him able to avenge anyone is the people who chose to follow him.  Most of these people I consider zealots and bigots who should be stopped (sort of like the Klu Klux Klan or the Spanish Inquisition), so I don’t see avenging their captures or deaths as a legitimate act.  I do see that some Arabs and Muslims have real reasons to be upset, but I don’t see how Bin Laden is their “avenger.”  I think that people who don't directly target civilians or support regimes like the Taliban who so grievously harm their civilians would be the best people to represent those civilians.  I also think it should be people from that group: rich Saudi men with tremendous advantages who still couldn't make a positive difference on his co-citizens' lives in his own country need not apply.
663832
Of course OSAMA BIN LADEN. It is not even a question. Bush my be acting like that for political reasons. However, Osama acts like that because he has a blind ugly heart. He does not even have a mind to think. I am not defending Bush but Bush, when he attacked Iraq, was claiming he will free Iraqis from Saddam but Osama, when he is attacking innocents everyday, never gives a reasonable reason.
660257
The Russians say they killed Osama Bin Laden 15 years ago. The video they keep posting has no validity with me, since George Bush can't seem to produce Bin Laden. George Bush wont even talk about the number one terrorist to America and I think that is really strange.
966700
Bin Laden is more valuable to the intelligence and military communities while "at large".  They get additional funding and get to step on a few civil liberties along the way and people will accept it.  This happens during every major conflict for example internment of Japanese citizens during WWII.  We can only hope that things get retunred to normal in 40-50 years when all the terrorists have been rounded up.
1011929
Bin Laden is the 'boogieman' under the American bed. \n\nIf you catch him the American people won't be afraid of him. \n\nIf the American people aren't afraid then the government will loose the control that the fear gives them. \n\nThey don't want Bin Laden captured\n\nBe careful or the boogieman will get you. You had better do as we tell you