The United States is preparing a huge high-tech surveillance operation against Osama bin Laden, in case he breaks cover in the face of an imminent manhunt involving thousands of Pakistani and American troops. US commanders and intelligence chiefs are lining up an array of spy satellites, U2 spy planes, Predator drones, and listening devices and sensors to detect vehicle movements, Bush Administration officials told CNN television.


He told the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation that bin Laden had "issues with his wife, and he has issues with his kids, financial issues, you know, the kids aren't listening, the kids aren't doing this and that".
The revelations would be a source of shame for the head of any traditional Arab family. They are an astonishing humiliation for a man supposed to be the "sheikh" and inspiration of a new world order, based on strict Islamic law.

So what's next? Is Canada going to stand by and say nothing when the U.S. moves against the democratically-elected government of Hugo Chavez in Venezuela? Worse, are we going to participate in that venture of building ?democracy? as well?

In 1997, Jinsa declared: "Jinsa has been working closely with Iraqi National Council leader Dr Ahmad Chalabi to promote Saddam Hussein's removal from office and a subsequently democratic future for Iraq."

As Richard Perle once complained: "The CIA has been engaged in a character assassination of Ahmad Chalabi for years now, and it's a disgrace."

Senator Edward M. Kennedy of Massachusetts today delivered a blistering indictment of President Bush's decision to go to war in Iraq, accusing Mr. Bush of deliberately exaggerating the threat posed by Saddam Hussein's regime.
The speech by Mr. Kennedy to the Council on Foreign Relations was the most detailed Democratic assault to date on the issue.
The senator singled out George J. Tenet, the director of central intelligence, who said last month that his agency had never portrayed Iraq has having presented an imminent threat to the United States, as having failed in his obligation to correct statements by Mr. Bush that described the Iraqi threat as "unique and urgent" and "grave."
"Why wasn't C.I.A. Director Tenet correcting the president and the vice president and the Secretary of Defense a year ago, when it could have made a difference, when it could have prevented a needless war, when it could have saved so many lives?" Mr. Kennedy asked.

In a separate speech today, the top Democrat on the House Intelligence Committee planned to accuse the Bush administration of remaining "in a deep state of denial" in addressing flaws in the country's intelligence system, according to an prepared text provided by her office.
The fact that no chemical or biological weapons have been found in Iraq, despite prewar assertions by American intelligence agencies that Iraq possessed such devices, is only the most recent sign of those flaws, said the Democrat, Representative Jane Harman of California.
"Recent actions inside the C.I.A. are encouraging," Ms. Harman said in her remarks for a planned address to the American Enterprise Institute, "but there are no discernible signs from the vice president or president acknowledging the obvious flaws in our intelligence systems."