CIA has 'excellent' idea where bin Laden is -Time - Yahoo! News
I was wondering how long it would take before talk of the ultimate trump card would come about. Poll numbers down? Run around screaming "Osama" for a while.

Question is, will that work?

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - CIA Director Porter Goss said he has an "excellent" idea where Osama bin Laden is hiding, but the al Qaeda leader will not be brought to justice until weak links in counterterrorism efforts are strengthened, Time magazine reported on Sunday.

In his first interview since becoming head of the CIA last year, Goss also told the magazine the insurgency in Iraq was not quite in its last throes, but close to it.

Goss did not say where he believed bin Laden was hiding, but intelligence experts have said the al Qaeda leader who has evaded an extensive U.S.-led manhunt is probably in the border region of Pakistan and Afghanistan.

"I have an excellent idea of where he is. What's the next question?" Goss said in the interview.

"In the chain that you need to successfully wrap up the war on terror, we have some weak links. And I find that until we strengthen all the links, we're probably not going to be able to bring Mr. bin Laden to justice," Goss said. "We are making very good progress on it."

He cited some of the difficulties as "dealing with sanctuaries in sovereign states, you're dealing with a problem of our sense of international obligation, fair play."

You callin' Pakistan a "weak link" there, Porter, or what? What exactly do you mean by this?

Another dog-and-pony show for mass consumption. My fear is that they pull Osama out of the hat just in time for 2006. I still wonder if it would matter anymore.