This comment, from a former senior CIA agent in Afghanistan, is interesting:
MR. RUSSERT: Before you go, will we ever capture Osama bin Laden?
MR. SCHROEN: I think with the capture of Al-Libbi recently–gives some hope that the Pakistanis will cooperate if we put enough pressure on them, and maybe we end up doing it unilaterally but I think we’re going to get him within the next three to four months.
MR. RUSSERT: Three to four months.
MR. SCHROEN: Well, that’s my hope.
This is a little at odds with what Mr. Schroen said earlier in the interview, when he implied that the Pakistani government really didn’t want to capture bin Laden, for fear of the domestic turmoil it might spawn. Perhaps he has wind of something at work behind the scenes.
Well, his capture was important at one time, before it became unimportant.