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U.S. reporters familiar with the whereabouts of terrorist ringleader Osama bin Laden

I doubt this is true. There was a reporter on CBS local NY city news that interviewed Bin Laden 2 years ago. He was blindfolded and it wasn't removed until he was inside a cave with Bin Laden. The reporter said it was impossible to know where he was. He said Bin Laden has refered to himself as a walking dead man since the 80's and takes extreme precautions. Keep in mind that North has been out of "the loop" for years.

If Journalists rat out their sources, we will no longer have journalists able to cover situations like this firsthand. We will lose our ability to get the truth.

I think this is something worth thinking about, but I don't think it's necessarily an open-and-shut case.

You'd like to think that a really talented journalist could both gain trust of his source and give the FBI/CIA information, but if the journalist was ever found out, we'd start getting dead journalists one after another until we no longer had anyone but Tabibanis willing to interview bin Laden. What good would that be?

Ideally, there should be a secure technology that allows a bin Laden to communicate two way with a member of a neutral international journalist organization without being pinpointed. Or something.