Bush's Bin Laden Craving

By Dan Froomkin
Special to washingtonpost.com
Wednesday, September 10, 2008

There are new signs today that President Bush is pulling out all the stops to capture or kill Osama bin Laden before his term is up -- or better yet, before the November election.

That the terrorist leader remains a free man is the most visceral example of the failure of Bush's so-called "war on terror," and a personal humiliation as well. It's been seven long years since Bush's blustery promise that he would bring bin Laden in, " dead or alive."

Back in June, Sarah Baxter wrote in the Times of London about Bush's "final attempt to capture Osama Bin Laden before he leaves the White House.

"Defense and intelligence sources in Washington and London confirmed that a renewed hunt was on for the leader of the September 11 attacks. 'If he [Bush] can say he has killed Saddam Hussein and captured Bin Laden, he can claim to have left the world a safer place,' said a US intelligence source."

A few days later, Bush dismissed the report as "a little bit of press hyperventilating."

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