Who Lost Osama?

John Kerry claims to know something that nobody else knows - the whereabouts of Osama Bin Laden. When I heard Kerry say that Osama was hiding in the Tora Bora region of Afghanistan, I was a bit surprised. The last I had heard, he was just across the border in a rugged, ungovernable region of Pakistan.

Additionally, Kerry claim that we had Bin Laden surrounded in Tora Bora, before letting him escape to go after Saddam Hussein conflicts with the memory of those who were actually there.

Gen. Franks, on the campaign trail in Florida for George W. Bush, this week, said it's wrong to assume that bin Laden was hiding out in Tora Bora. Some intelligence reports put him there, he says, but others placed him in Pakistan, Kashmir or Iran--or at a lake 90 miles northwest of the Afghan city of Kandahar. Gen. DeLong concurs. "Was Osama bin Laden there?" he said in an interview. "I don't know."