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Bush: U.S. Will Catch bin Laden
Friday, December 28, 2001
(12:23 PM ET)
By Scott Lindlaw
Associated Press Writer

A draft of proposed Bush administration rules for the tribunals states that an unanimous vote of a tribunal's military officers would be required to impose a death sentence on a foreign terror suspect, an official said today on condition of anonymity.

CRAWFORD, Texas -- AP
President Bush pledged today to bring Osama bin Laden to justice, saying U.S. forces are determined to capture him.

"He is not escaping us," Bush said at his Texas ranch, adding that the world's most-hunted man no longer has a leadership role in Afghanistan.

"I mean, this is a guy who, three months ago, was in control of a country. Now he's maybe in control of a cave," Bush said. "We're going to get him running and keep him running, and bring him to justice. ... He's on the run, if he's running at all."

Bush's news conference, held on a clear, windy, winter day just outside his old home on the ranch, followed two days in which bin Laden held the media spotlight with a newly released videotape.
(More: The Orlando Sentinel News Source)
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