How would you bag the big guy?

[Don Gwinn]

We don't call people "towel heads" here and we also don't engage in personal attacks against other members. If you can't resist that sort of thing, you have email and PM to vent.

[75thRangerRegiment]

"I would send in four armed to the teeth Ranger battallions to get Bin Laden and would employ the AC-130s, F-18s and cruise missles to make "

unfortunately we only have 3 active duty Ranger Battalions at the present. There is also the Ranger Training Brigade Battalions but they would be better kept stateside so they could train new Rangers how to kill.We should have as many Ranger Battalions as we did in WWII.

now for a tangent rant:
And transforming the Glorious 101st Airborne Division into air assault like we did in the late 80's was a total mis- judgement by powers that be(were). We should have built an Air Assault division from scratch - not pillage a tightly cohesive Airborne Division!!! The dumb bastards.....
HOOOOAAHHHHHHH!!!!!!!

Oyster - very "nice" comments bud. Getting older here but 1st Rgr Battalion served with pride until years of 48-50 week training cycles took their toll on these elbows and shoulders.And chronic tendonitis that the Ortho's say will never be the same. Alot of us here have paid a price in one way or another - PS- ninjas are gay wannabes from the 80's dude!

[PSE]

If you walked into your kitchen late one night and there were roaches all over your birthday cake that scattered when you turned on the light. well, you just happen to notice this one big red roach.
so you set it in your mind "im gonna get that &%$* RED roach".
are you gonna just disregard the rest of the roaches to get that one big red roach?
NO!
YOU KILL THEM ALL!
sooner or later youll get the red one.

[mrcalm7]

This thread is a mockery to all the men and women presently pursuing this maniac.

Shut it down.

[CarbineCaleb]

While the military and other government agencies certainly do make mistakes, I don't think that catching or killing Bin Laden is at all an easy task.

• Bin Laden is an experienced guerilla leader, and with a long record of success, clearly he is quite competent as well.
• He is hiding in a rugged area that is difficult to travel in and offers many hiding places from technological surveillance
• The size of the potential area he is hiding in also confounds technological surveillance - it's not possible to see everything over tens of thousands of square miles with high resolution - can't be done.
• He knows both the geography and the tactics of guerilla warfare in this area very well, having over 20 years experience in the region, and having helped lead the fight against another superpower there.
• With his long history there, he is something of a hero to most in the area, and feared by most of the rest. So most people will help him, or at least not risk hurting him.
• In small rural towns that exist out there, just like here, everyone knows everyone, and outsiders, even from the same country stick out like a sore thumb. Not so easy to just travel around and gather intelligence.
• The residents in these particular regions are fiercely independent, and well armed - they have never really been successfully governed by any central authority.
• Pakistan is a sovereign country with an unstable government, and large, powerful radical groups who oppose it. The president has already survived two assassination attempts. Civil war and/or a coup are ever present possibilities. He cannot allow the Americans to operate freely - that would immediately be known, and almost certainly cause one of the preceding consequences. Those consequences by the way, would not only be bad for Musharraf and Pakistan, they'd be bad for the world, including the US of A.
• Bin Laden is well financed - he has a significant amount of personal wealth, and his organization is engaged in raising capital by all methods possible, both legal and illegal. He has considerable means at his disposal.

I do think that it's possible to get Bin Laden, but I sure don't think that is an easy task.