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June 16, 2008
Posted: 02:04 PM ET

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FROM CNN's Jack Cafferty:

President Bush has reportedly ordered a final attempt to capture Osama bin Laden before he leaves office.

The Times of London reports that the president has enlisted British special forces to help get the job done. Sources in both Washington and London confirm to the newspaper that a renewed hunt is under way. One source says: "If President Bush can say he killed Saddam Hussein and captured bin Laden, he can claim to have left the world a safer place."

British special forces have been participating in U.S. operations to catch the terrorist leader in northern Pakistan, but it's the first time they're crossing into Afghanistan regularly.

Of course, no one knows where Osama bin Laden is. He has eluded capture for almost seven years now. Some experts think he's in the tribal areas of northwest Pakistan. One Pentagon source says that U.S. forces are trying to push al Qaeda in Pakistan toward the Afghan border, where they'd have a better shot at catching him.

But, the increase in U.S. military action is not sitting well with the Pakistanis. Last week, they were outraged about what they claimed was an airstrike on a border post with Afghanistan that killed 11 of its troops. The U.S. says it's still "not exactly clear" what happened.

Here’s my question to you: President Bush wants Osama bin Laden captured before leaving office. How important is it at this point?

Interested to know which ones made it on air?

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Filed under: Osama bin Laden • President George Bush



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