FBI director confident that US will hunt down bin Laden
Robert Mueller, the FBI director, predicted confidently on Wednesday that Osama bin Laden would be captured, even as he warned that “al-Qaeda would very much relish another high-profile attack inside the United States”. Striking an upbeat tone on the prospects of hunting down the head of the al-Qaeda terrorist network, Mr Mueller insisted “we are safer today than we were on September 11”. He acknowledged that scouring territories along the Afghanistan-Pakistan frontier for Mr bin Laden had sometimes been like “looking for a needle in a haystack”, but, speaking at a lunch hosted by The Christian Science Monitor, he said: “I am confident we will find him.” Mr Mueller added he was also confident of finding Ayman al-Zawahiri, the Egyptian doctor seen as al-Qaeda’s second in command. Full Story