ABCNEWS.com : Officials Narrow Bin Laden Search to Caravan

U.S. and Pakistani officials have narrowed their search for Osama bin Laden to a caravan near the border of southwestern Pakistan, ABCNEWS has learned.


The CIA and Pakistani army are electronically tracking the large caravan of people on foot and horseback through the rugged mountain area of Pakistan between the borders with Iran and Afghanistan, Pakistani officials told ABCNEWS.

Bin Laden may be traveling with the caravan and may be on foot.


Officials have cast a net around the caravan — using electronic U.S. surveillance and planes with cameras that can see through darkness to monitor its movement along a trail.


U.S. officials say they are not 100 percent sure that bin Laden is in the caravan, but they have a high degree of probability that he is and have closed off the area to all other traffic.


The area is so rugged that officials may not be able to move in with military vehicles, but instead could launch an operation with CIA paramilitary forces attacking the caravan from helicopters if it is determined that bin Laden is there.


President Bush has also authorized the launch of a missile attack if bin Laden is positively identified.[...]

I so hope it's true, and I so hope they take him alive. It would be great if they killed him, of course, but somehow...I just want him to be caught and humiliated first. A few shots of him in his undies like KSM would be so satisfying compared to a picture of a corpse. Somehow a corpse can be noble...there's just no way to look good getting dragged out of bed in your tighty-whities.


Now, a lot of people are thinking, "Good, so if we kill Bin Laden, does that mean we don't have to invade Iraq?" No, that means we mount his head as a hood ornament on the first M1 into Baghdad.