BBC NEWS | UK | Paper claims Bin Laden found

"A US intelligence source tells the paper the leader of al-Qaeda is 'boxed in' with 50 loyal henchmen in an area measuring 100 square miles.
American military officials believe the Taliban leader, Mullah Mohammed Omar, is with him and neither man has any chance of escape. "

There is something so 1984ish about this announcement and the way in which "news from the front" often speaks of victory at hand, yet the "victory" has no follow-up and no impact on the reign of war. During the Iraq conflict we've have so many announcements of proven connections to Al Qaeda, of WMDs found, of an end to insurgents after capturing Saddam Hussein, etc, yet nothing has come close to ending the mess or bringing any semblance of peace to Iraq, much less the Middle East as Bush's lofty claims touted.

So here we are again with a claim of "Osama bin Laden is close to capture". Well, maybe it's true, and that would be good news, and maybe it's not, but when you get right down to it, the Al Qaeda network is really fed by desperate people with a deep sense of anger, and the Bush administration has done nothing but augment this segment of the world population. I hope that he's captured, but I don't think that the terrorism will stop because of this.