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I suspect that private companies of former seals, rangers, specops etc, given all the resources needed by the govt would be sleek and trim enough to get these guys.

So, the Army Rangers who might be tracking and trailing a terrorist hoping that he would lead them to bin Laden wouldn't mind some Reward Rambos dropping in and killing the guy?

It's not a question of fitness or desire. It's a matter of having the best armed forces in the world, provided with classified intel, not being interfered with by very patriotic, but less-informed, people.

It's a matter of having the best armed forces in the world, All wrapped up in "rules of engagement" and a thousand pounds of other bureaucratese. Having to go through a chain of command 10 miles long in order to get from place to place? Heavens only knows what kind of paperwork.

The terrorists have none of this. They can move on the spur of the moment and the military can't. We're not fighting a terror war, we're fighting the gulf war all over again. Bomb them til he pops up. Only, he ain't poppin. And the govt has no clue where he is at and afganis aren't likely to be talking to the mohawked guy hiding in the bush with information either.

Fine, let the military try. But I just don't minds to be closed to the availability of this course of action in case the military fails to flush him out.