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