Did US spies let bin Laden slip through their grasp again?

A US spy plane picked up some "tantalizing" clues last month indicating where terror leader Osama bin Laden or his deputy might be hiding, but intelligence officials were unable to move quickly enough to capture or kill the al Qaeda mastermind, NBC News reported Thursday.

"The sighting came in the rugged mountain passes of Tora Bora," NBC correspondent Jim Miklaszewski reported on the Today Show.

An unmanned spy plane spotted a large security contingent similar in size to one that would guard bin Laden or his No. 2, Ayman al-Zawahiri, although intelligence officials were unable to positively identify either of the top terrorists.

The intelligence gathered launched the largest military operation in Afghanistan in five years, Miklaszewski reported. Some intelligence and military officials "believed there was a high probability" bin Laden or Zawahiri were there, despite the lack of a positive ID.

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We need more remote controlled bombers to get OBL.

Gosh darn it, he always seems to get away.

It's a puzzlement.

:sarcasm:

Osama was a bandit boy
His family rich as rich could be.
He wore his hate right on his chest.
For all the honest world to see.
Osama met his match and ran
Through mountians of Afghanistan.
Nobody heard his dying words.
But that's the way it goes.

All the militaries say,
They could have had him anyday
They only let him slip away.
Out of kindness I suppose.

Chimpy he can't stand to lose.
All his life he never had to.
The dust Osama bit up-south
Ended up in Chimpy's mouth.
They day they laid Osama low
Chimpy stole it in Ohio.
How he got hacks to go.
Ain't nobody knows.

All the militaries say
They could ahad him any day
They only let him slip away.
Out of kindness I suppose.

The internet tells how Osama fell.
And Chimpy's living way to well.
The desert's destroyed, Bush gets bold.
So the story will end we're told.
Osama rots in hell it's true.
He saves a spot for Chimpy too.
He only did what he had to do.
What PNAC foretold.

A few grey presidents they say.
They could have had him anyday
They only let him slip away.
Out of kindness I suppose.