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What if they have an informer among Bin Laden's crew. If they reveal 
that, the guyis dead, and the evidence is dead. If they have some way of 
listening in on his calls, and they reveal that, then the guy stops 
calling. In fact, this already happened. A newspaper reported that the 
CIA was tracking Bin Laden a few years ago. Ever since then, he doesn't 
use a cell phone. 

The very LEAST the Talibanimals could do, is take Bin Laden into custody 
until this is sorted out. Lets face it, they hate America and all 
non-Muslims, they like what Bin Laden does, and they are co-conspirators.


>> They have stated that if the US supplies proof of
>> his guilt then he will be brought to trial (I'm aware that such a trial
>> might well be a mockery of justice but how and ever until that is shown to
>> be a fact...)
>
>Regarding that little point.  At least, in the US, you provide the proof at
>trial -- there is no obligation to present it to the defendant (or his
>cohorts) before trial.  To get to trial, you need an indictment by a grand
>jury - so you must present enough evidence to convince them.  And the grand
>jury proceedings can be secret or sealed.  So, the US really has no
>obligation at all to present the Taliban with any evidence.  But perhaps,
>they should present it to a sealed grand jury type of thing in a World Court
>somewhere... perhaps that's been done?  In any case, Bin Laden has already
>been indicted in at least three bombings, so that's sufficient to arrest
>him.