Where In The World Is Carmen San Diego Osama Bin Laden

I swear, the world is missing out on some folks who should be brain surgeons or rocket scientists. Bin Laden isn't hiding in in or near Pakistan and, just a few weeks after the US election, they decide to suspend efforts to find him.

"After more than two years of battling remnants of al Qaeda and the Taliban, Pakistan's government has announced it will end its military operation in the tense tribal region of South Waziristan.

The province along the border with Afghanistan is among the potential hiding places for Osama bin Laden and his top lieutenants.

The announcement late Friday came a day after a Pakistani army commander said repeated searches by the military have failed to turn up any trace of bin Laden in the tribal lands."

Really! Everyone was positive he was sitting around in a cave for three years waiting for the Pakistani special forces to root him out. In his pre-election greeting to the people of the United States, he certainly looked as though he was in good health and spirits ... just the way most cave dwellers with kidney disease would look. Gosh. I'm just dazzled by the brilliance of our allies . They acknowledged the obvious. Maybe if we are really nice to the other countries that are rumored hiding places (like Iran and China), we can get them to search until the end of Bush's term. At least he'd be able to say he never stopped looking for that evil doer.