Networking Nabobs of Terror: Saddam, Ayman, and Osama…………..
“Most of the people interviewed said that, while there is significantly more discussion of networks now than, say, a decade ago, it's still an ancillary part of the intel toolkit. For all Hickey, Russell, Maddox, and Reed's success in Iraq, network theory is not a silver bullet. Network diagrams helped pin down Saddam Hussein after only nine months on the run. Osama Bin Laden, meanwhile, has evaded capture for more than eight years since the United States invaded Afghanistan. The American military's challenge in chasing Bin Laden isn't directly analogous to what it faced in Iraq. For one thing, fighting an urban insurgency requires an entirely different strategy than picking through the caves of Tora Bora and the mountainous membrane between Afghanistan and Pakistan. But there may be another reason the blueprint for tracking down Saddam doesn't easily graft onto the hunt for Bin Laden: Unlike the insurgency in the early days of the Iraq war, al-Qaida is no longer a real network……….”
Bin Laden has Facebook accounts. I have seen several under his name, although I suspect some of them are decoys. I also suspect that he is an avid tweeter, he and Ayman al-Zawahiri in their hideout somewhere in Waziristan. This does not mean I have give up on the Las Vegas blackjack dealer theory, or the underage polygamy compound in West Texas, or even on the Llano Estacado.
These guys can be anywhere; they can even be back on Hijaz disguised as Hajj guides.
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