He could be reliably located, hiding out in a mile-long tunnel, under some
two mile-high mountain in Afghanistan.
He could have a year's supply of food, ammo, & water. Not to mention hundreds
of heavily-armed guards.
"Smoke him out"?
Not even a fuel-air bomb, nor a ground-penetrating "bunker-buster" may do the job.
You can bet that that tunnel would
have heavily sandbagged entrances,
and even reinforced steel-doors.
[scratch the idea of cruise missiles
plunging through the tunnel entrances]...
That leaves three choices.
(1) Do an Iwo Jima [Using your Army Corps of Engineers to patiently use
hundreds of tons of conventional-explosives to rip away
at the mountain and the tunnel defences and obstacles, while Army paratroopers
and leathernecks resort to using more modern versions of flamethrowers and
Bangalore-torpedoes.] with expected
heavy casualties for all sides.
[2] Lay seige to the tunnel, patiently
wait a year or two while he starves,
and while the besieging forces defend against perimeter attacks made against them.
(3) nukes.
Jacob
OK! When they find Bin Laden's whereabouts & hideout, then what?
