Where's Osama

This should be a Democratic mantra, because obviously this President and this Administration, 5 years after 9/11, is just not that concerned about him:

U.S. intelligence officials say Osama bin Laden is likely hiding in Pakistan, and the former head of the CIA's bin Laden unit says the United States will have to be "extraordinarily lucky" to get the al Qaeda leader.

"Sometimes you get lucky," Michael Scheuer, who headed the CIA's bin Laden unit from 1996-1999, told CNN. "But looking for Osama bin Laden in the Hindu Kush is not like looking for Eric Rudolph in North Carolina."

Gary Berntsen, who led a CIA paramilitary unit pursuing bin Laden shortly after the September 11, 2001 attacks, said Pakistan is a country bin Laden knows well. He feels at home there and enjoys popular support. It's also a country where the U.S. military is not welcome.

It just seems to be that's a cop-out answer and a defeatist answer. Pakistan is reliant on US aid and military weaponry, and frankly the cooperation on catching bin Laden wouldn't be out in the open. But whether it's a failure of diplomacy and cooperation or the need for a convenient boogeyman, Osama's still at large. The 6'5" Muslim with the white flowing robe and the dialysis machine in Pakistan cannot be found. And according to this official, he's not even doing much of a job of hiding.

According to a U.S. military intelligence official familiar with the hunt, bin Laden is likely hiding in an area called Chitral, in the far north of Pakistan, bounded by Afghanistan to the west and China to the north.

Contrary to popular belief, the official said, bin Laden most likely isn't living in a cave but in a house, possibly with a family and no more than two bodyguards.

The official, who spoke on condition of anonymity due to the sensitive nature of the hunt, said the thinking that bin Laden is in Chitral is based in part on trees that are peculiar to that region that can be seen in a 2003 video of bin Laden walking in a mountainous region.

Others dispute this account, saying that there is limited data collection on bin Laden. Why? Why would Public Enemy Number 1 be allowed to roam freely? This is symptomatic of the unserious approach this Administration has taken on the "war on terror."

Speaking of being unserious, apparently Osama hearts Whitney:

A Sudanese writer who claims she was Osama bin Laden's sex slave says the terror mastermind once had his sights set on U.S. singer Whitney Houston.

The Daily Mail reported Monday that Kola Boof, born on the Nile River in Sudan, claims to have been held prisoner for four months in a Moroccan hotel some 10 years ago where she was raped by al-Qaida leader.

She wrote in her autobiography, "Diary of a Lost Girl," which was excerpted in Harpers' Bazaar magazine: "He told me Whitney Houston was the most beautiful woman he'd ever seen."

She said bin Laden was "obsessed" with the singer and considered killing her husband, Bobby Brown.

Now in Bobby Brown, bin Laden would have found a formidable opponent matching him on the road to Crazy Town. But honestly, this could be an asset. The writer also claims bin Laden was into "The Wonder Years" and "McGyver" and "Miami Vice". This is natural for a rich Saudi who grew up in a somewhat cosmopolitan manner. And it shows this guy's absolute perversion of Islam and rank hypocrisy. In a war of ideas, you can't stop American culture. Put down the gun and pick up the DVD player, that's what I say.