[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

OFFICIAL BUMP(TOPIC)LIST

[LS]

I may be dense, but if you have him "pinned down" to an area where you can figure out it's a CARAVAN, why can't you lob a few cruise missiles in and take these guys OUT?

[dep]

the solution to this quandry is as simple to execute as it is to state: thermonuclear device.

or, if we insist on having a body, multiple high-energy neutron gadgets.

dep

[Grampa Dave]

Probably just his funeral processions after they got a garbage can of his bits and pieces from that cave in Tora Bora where he assumed Cave Temp in December 2001.

Regardless, just kill all of them and send them to hell!

[Oldeconomybuyer]

I just love our new Office of Strategic Information!

[gov_bean_ counter]

Caravan, I thought he was in a Land Cruiser.

[ewing]

We may have cornered the b*stard!!

Send a Predator Drone filled with knockout Gas pronto..

[finnman69]

Caravan Smharavan

[Chummy]

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

Man, that's gonna leave a mark.

Couldn't his execution be sort of, slow and agonizing?

[Guillermo]

Wait, how could this be, with all the focus on Irak?

[TADSLOS]

It's time for Highway of Death, Part II

[Publius6961]

Who's running this operation, the Keystone Kops?

The caravan is not the area he's limited to.
The caravan route is.
And the longer they wait, the larger the area to search becomes, exponentially.

[colorado tanker]

How do you "cast a net" around an area with cameras? I hope they don't screw this up like Tora Bora and let Binny slip into Iran.

[TaRaRaBoomDeAyGoreLostToday!]

I wonder what the current orders are...

If the Pakistan and American forces spot OBL can they snipe him out? Or just take out both his legs to DROP.

[1Old Pro]

The Rats are scurrying.....

[Dead Dog]

Time to pop the sleepy gas when he get's into a canyon. You can do more to damage his organization with him alive than you can dead.

[jpthomas]

To give you an idea of the terrain in that region where this caravan is rumored to be, here is an image of the Gedrosian desert of Baluchistan and Iran:

When Alexander the Great returned in 325 BC from his campaign in India, he marched through this region because he wanted to stay close to his fleet, and to accomplish yet one more thing no army had ever successfully done before. He lost many men and probably caught the malaria that soon claimed his life.

For those historically inclined, here's a link that describes the account of the march of Alexander's army through that desolate region: Alexander the Great: the Gedrosian desert

An excerpt:

Most historians of Alexander's campaigns have stated that the sufferings of his men on that march were out of all proportion greater than anything they had had to endure in Asia...

The result was disastrous: the blazing heat and the lack of water caused innumerable casualties, especially among the animals, most of which died of thirst or from the effects of the deep, burning, sun-baked sand. Sometimes they met with lofty hills of sand - loose, deep sand, into which they sank as if it were mud or untrodden snow; sometimes, climbing or descending, the mules and horses suffered even greater distress from the uneven and treacherous surface of the track. Not the least hardship was the varying length of the marches, as the fact that they never knew when they would find water made regular, normal marches impossible. It was not so bad when they found water in the morning after covering the requisite distance during the night; but when there was still further to go, and they found themselves plodding on and on as the day advanced, the double distress of heat and raging thirst was almost intolerable.

[borkrules]

Man, the suspense is killing me. Now, I have to wait until 3/17 to get this thing on in Iraq? Faster, please.

[EternalVigilance]

"His son, apparently Saad, is in Iran and some of his wives also are in Iran and he has made apparently a big mistake," said ABCNEWS terrorism consultant Vince Cannistraro.

I can see the movie now---it can be called:

"Osama's Big Mistake"

[EternalVigilance]

One thing that is not being commented upon anywhere nearly enough, IMO, is the fact that the mullahs in Iran are harboring Al Quada.

There are millions yearning to be free in the Islamic Republic, too.