White House: No 'super powers' to find bin Laden RAW STORY

Published: Wednesday September 10, 2008





Print This Email This The White House said Wednesday that the failure to capture Osama bin Laden in the seven years since the Sept. 11 attacks shows the limitations of military and intelligence power.



"This is not the movies. We don't have super powers," said White House press secretary Dana Perino. "But what we do have is very dedicated people who are working with our allies and trying to bring (al-Qaida leaders) to justice."



"This president, and I'm sure future presidents, will continue to try to track down al-Qaeda leaders," Perino added. "We will continue to try to find Osama bin Laden."



Perino sidestepped a question on whether or not President Bush was "frustrated that [bin Laden] hasn't been captured or killed," but noted that "as the president says, Osama bin Laden is not out there leading any parades."



Democrats continued to make weight of the fact that the 9/11 mastermind has not been captured or killed during Bush's tenure as president.



"The Bush administration has failed to put the necessary resources and manpower into the hunt for America's No. 1 enemy," Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid said Wednesday. "President Bush has rightly said that the war on terror is about more than just one man. Yet seven years after 9/11, the president has allowed that one man's vast al-Qaida network to regroup."



(with wire reports)



