Osama Bin Laden Wanted Dead Or Alive

Bush famously said that he wanted osama bin laden dead or alive he made clear that he was not serious about this.

Osama bin laden wanted dead or alive. A day by day account of how osama bin laden eluded the world s most powerful military machine. Bruce riedel who chaired president barack obama s afghanistan pakistan policy review and who has seen the intelligence on bin laden says the trail has not so much gone cold as frozen over. 17 president george w. It was cheered and justly so by republicans as well as democrats across the country.

Bush said the united states wanted suspected terrorist leader osama bin laden dead or alive comparing the administration s efforts to hunt down evil. Since the transference of power from the bush administration to that of barack obama administration the question of whether bin laden is dead or alive has become more important. Osama bin laden dead. There have been no indications that he is dead.

Killing osama bin laden who had evaded american justice and retribution for nearly a decade after september 11 2001 was a big deal and a big factor in obama s re election a year and a half later. The us s political discourse and foreign policy in recent years has been based on the assumption that osama bin laden is still alive. How bin laden got away. Besides stating that he was not concerned about bin laden he demonstrated this by diverting most of america s military resources to iraq.

Historically some wanted posters offering a reward contained the phrase dead or alive. Bush famously said that he wanted osama bin laden dead or alive he made clear that he was not serious about this. So is the world s most wanted man still alive. Edward snowden said osama bin laden is alive edward snowden did not claim osama bin laden was alive and living lavishly in the bahamas on the cia s payroll.

And therefore the most likely suspicion is that he is alive. For a decade osama bin laden has managed to evade the world s superpower and the biggest manhunt in history.