They can run but they can't hi......Ah fuck it! From the Austrailian http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,5744,9018516%5E2703,00.html Bin Laden's right-hand man slips net By Rodney Dalton, New York correspondent and Agencies March 20, 2004 A BULLETPROOF LandCruiser at high speed bursting out of a tribal compound in Pakistan's South Waziristan region was just the latest infuriating setback in the US's quest to bring down the top of the al-Qa'ida tree. The car, followed by two armoured vehicles and a phalanx of heavily armed militants able to wipe out dozens of crack troops sent to blast the terrorists from their nest, is believed to have contained Ayman al-Zawahiri, right-hand man to Osama bin Laden. After mounting speculation that US and Pakistani forces ranged on either side of the Afghanistan-Pakistan border were about to pounce on al-Qa'ida's key planner, a senior Taliban spokesman yesterday made the claim Washington least wanted to hear - that both Zawahiri and bin Laden were safe in Afghanistan. "He may have slipped the net," the official said. The story continues on... I agree with many others smarter and more talented with HTML code (Josh Marshall, Hesiod, Atrios) this sure smelled funny from the get-go. However, you have to agree, the description sure is one that any fan of action movies can love. "Die Hard X-Treme" at 12,000 feet. And once again, as the article states, PAKISTANI CRACK TROOPS. Granted they aren't short, cute, and they are plainly evil, but is this getting more and more like Bin Laden and Al-Zawahiri are Frodo and Sam, and the Pakistani Army is as competent as Sauron's Orcs? Where is the giant fucking spider?