Meanwhile: Bin Laden is still on the loose
Why Can’t We Get Him?
Two years after the horror of 9/11, Osama bin Laden appears to be alive, well—and still a master of media manipulation
By Michael Hirsh, Mark Hosenball and Sami Yousafzai
NEWSWEEK
Sept. 22 issue — In the Pakistani city of Peshawar, the Kissakhani bazaar is buzzing with talk of Osama bin Laden. When a new video aired by Al-Jazeera last week showed the terror chieftain walking casually down a boulder-strewn mountainside, it was almost as if he had risen from the dead. The market in bin Laden baubles—photos, tapes—took off in hours.
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