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...unlikely to have waited around for the stronghold's inevitable collapse before making his getaway. It's always possible that he miscalculated the speed of his enemies' advances, of course. But he's the head of an organization whose operations tend to be meticulously planned, years in advance - if bin Laden had always planned to slip away once Afghanistan became too dangerous for him, he's more likely to have implemented a carefully-laid escape plan with plenty of decoys and red herrings, than to be improvising a haphazard retreat. And he's unlikely to go to ground...
Seeing Osama bin Laden chuckling ghoulishly over his "achievement" on September 11 reminded most Americans why they want him dead. And many had been expecting the battle of Tora Bora to produce his body. But al-Qaeda's last Afghan redoubt has fallen and bin Laden's whereabouts, in Pentagon parlance, are "anyone's guess." Deputy Defense Secretary Paul Wolfowitz found himself playing damage control Tuesday, reminding the nation that the war on terrorism is about far more than...
...America has - for better or worse - put a face on the evil of the September 11 attacks, and that face belongs to Osama bin Laden. Personalizing the battle has been the work not only of a media culture that can't report a war without resorting to standard Hollywood diabolical bad-guy tropes, but also of the administration itself: Despite all caveats to the contrary offered every step of the way, much of what Washington has done since September 11 has made getting bin Laden a major objective of the exercise - from leaflets dropped all over Afghanistan offering...
...Demonizing a foe and then failing to destroy him can be bad for a nation's morale - witness Saddam Hussein still cropping up on Washington's to-do list a decade after the U.S. marshalled a half million allied troops to confront him in Kuwait. Sure, bin Laden may yet turn up among the corpses or the stragglers of Tora Bora. But if he doesn't, he will have scored a significant short-term propaganda victory and created some major political headaches for Washington...
...Bin Laden's escape plan...