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Originally Posted by mburbank
Actually, I'm guessing no one thinks that. I'm speaking msotly to what Ziggy said, that he's the guilty party and that capturing him would mean a whole lot more than killing Iraqis.
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I think there's a more substantive reason behind it, too (not that capturing a murderer isn't substantive). Sure, capturing Bin Laden won't destroy Al Qaeda, but it will strike an incredible ideological blow to a movement that has become almost entirely driven by ideology.
Secondly, Bin Laden's business interests supposedly brought him profits somewhere in the BILLIONS range. Heck, he alone funded most of the military development in places like Sudan, as well as Afghanistan.
To my recollection, we've frozen "millions" of his dollars in various bank accounts. But there's more of it out there, and somebody has to have access to this cash. If we capture him, we might be that much closer to cutting serious funding from terrorism.