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Originally Posted by Shoonra

I suspect Osama is not living in a cave but in a number of fairly well-equipped safehouses.

Even so, if he's in the mountainous hinterlands, I suspect his internet access is very spotty. He's rich enough to afford the equipment for satellite reception for his TV and internet, but maybe he's using it exclusively for reception -- transmission would attract too much attention. So his messages are recorded and then spirited by underlings to bigger cities, perhaps deliberately farther than absolutely necessary, to be transmitted, keeping his whereabouts still secret. This may also explain the lack of visuals -- any clue about the weather, the phases of the moon, etc., could be a clue as to where he is or at least what distance from the city he uses for transmissions.

And why should the government want to find their favorite "Scarecrow”? They could have collected him long ago, except that they had plans for him:

Where was Osama bin Laden on 9/11?

Bush Administration knew the Whereabouts of Osama

by Michel Chossudovsky

www.globalresearch.ca 16 November 2003 (revised 17 November 2003)

The URL of this article is: http://globalresearch.ca/articles/CHO311A.html

If the CBS report by Dan Rather is accurate and Osama had indeed been admitted to the Pakistani military hospital on September 10, 2001, courtesy of America's ally, he was in all likelihood still in hospital in Rawalpindi on the 11th of September, when the attacks occurred. In all probability, his whereabouts were known to US officials on the morning of September 12, when Secretary of State Colin Powell initiated negotiations with Pakistan, with a view to arresting and extraditing bin Laden.