[eureka!]

I do hope that W's battle plan includes OBL's financiers, bankers, brokers and money launderers. Take 'em out covertly with an agressive wet work campaign so nobody wants to touch his money. To the extent drug traffickers are providing product for sale and financing, they too should be targeted and eliminated....

[Ranger]

Fully agree. Targeting hits on the financial sources and his money minions is something that is low cost, trackable, more effective than dropping bombs on camel tents though not as emotionally gratifying.

The scary things are where this will lead us. To the Saudi and Gulf elite business structure perhaps paying protection money? Panama, Russia, Cuba, Japan, Germany, Italy, Switzerland and to US and British banks which facilitate these transactions without asking a lot of questions.

CIA & NSA could do wonders here and might bring down some drug cartels at the same time.

One wonders why the Bin Laden family business remains in business, and what electronic trail is left to follow on short selling which was so evident last week?