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br> -- Steve Boggs br> Columbus, Ohio /p>

In your article, you make the statement:

"It is easy to see why war criminals like Ratko Mladic and Radovan Karadzic remain at large. The United Nations' EUFOR is charged with their capture."

It was our job to find these two for several years while we had troops in Bosnia, and Kosovo. We weren't any more successful finding them than we have been in finding bin Laden. Sadly, our CIA does not have the capability to conduct covert, or overt, assassinations. Our only success through the years was capture of Che Guevara, and that was largely an accident.

Of course, when the Congress passed a law (Remember Bob Torricelli?) in the late 90's which forbade the CIA from using unsavory characters for intelligence sources, we lost all capability to spy, or ferret out the bad guys.

Regrettably, Congress still hasn't passed a law banning guys like Torricelli from serving in its halls.

p>We haven't lost a city yet in the War on Terror. So, we really haven't gotten serious yet. br> -- R. Goodson br> Vero Beach, Florida /p>

The recent kerfuffle about the Bin Laden's "Just For Men" video overlooks past reports he has been hiding in Iran and shaved his beard to resemble Pakistani Pashtuns. In Yossef Bodansky's Secret History of the Iraq War, page 298, he recounts the report that the senior Al Qaeda leadership, along with Bin Laden "arrived in Tehran in early May" of 2003 to help plan the escalation of terrorism in Iraq.

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