"Hundreds of US and Afghan soldiers have returned to launch a new attack on the
last known hideout of the fugitive al-Qaeda leader Osama Bin Laden. They have
launched an air and ground assault in the Tora Bora region, near the border with
Pakistan. .... A US military spokeswoman, Captain Vanessa Bowman, said the
assault was launched against targeted positions: 'The targets were carefully
chosen to pinpoint enemy positions and eliminate the likelihood of harming
innocent civilians.' 'This region has provided an ideal environment to conceal
enemy support bases and training sites, as well as plan and launch attacks aimed
at terrorizing innocent civilians, both inside and outside the region,' she
said"
At the end of the day we found Saddam in a spider hole, barely large enough for his body. What if the way that Bin Laden was able to slip through the net, was that he didn't. What if he retreated to the back of a cave, deep enough that he knew that troops wouldn't search. From the stories I have heard those caves go for miles and miles, and there is no way that we could have searched them all. The easiest way to hide, is to make no movements at all, he must have known an attack was coming. Go down into the caves that he and his people know well, hide and wait for the enemy to leave. In theory, even if one or two soldiers happened to stumble down the right passage - they could be dispatched without revealing anything.
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