Did US attacked Afghanistan to capture Osama or...?

There were i believe a lot of servicemen fropm various countries who adopted Islam after and during the afghan war and joined the ranks, some never went home.

The pro-independance Chechen president dhzokar dudayev was himself a colonel in the airforce having served in Afghanistan. Some black person(sorry cant remember name) that is now undergoing a terrorist trial in US was a Gulf War veteran. SAS men had some of the most cordial relations with the mujahedeen, since the main part of their job portfolio was to disseminate advanced training.

What was Khalid-bin-walid doing fighting alongside Mohammed, if we use that logic.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/scotland/1546995.stm

Dear gharanai

for the sake of convenience, i will reply to the second comment first. The pentagon comment was sarcasm and maybe food for thought. I thought some fertile minds might make use of such speculation in the given context.

As for Mr nek Muhammed, i would say strategy is more important than courage. I think he lacked prudence, If the guy is going to give interviews to the BBC and others, he is not going to be difficult to find. Anyhow he failed to learn from A.S.Masood that interviews can be very dangerous in that part of the world. Secondly, the CIA and military act upon ground intelligence provided by the ISI and other affiliated agencies to a special task force who then relay that information to the US. The technology mainly serves an end use and is easily used by the operators. i.e the hardware is hightech but the operation is not. Saddam was not found, the US were told where they would find him.

Now for the first comment. I dont think he is a madman, I think he has graduated in geopolitics in the theater of war the hard way. He has found out that he was used by 'All' and doesnt want all their efforts to go to waste. He is trying to salvage the cause he has fought for and in pursuit of which he has lost many. The US is telling him to get lost and he is saying no. He has taken on-board what he has learned (correctly or incorrectly) that if u stay steadfast, u can defeat a superpower.

I dont think he is an agent and dont know if he is a true Muslim, whatever that means. I do think he is devoted to his cause because he has shown the whole world that he is. Even if u accept him as an agent then u cant question his commitment. I think he values his role more as an inspirational figurehead than a front-line man. Even in his previous role against the soviets he represented a high profile Arab figure, a model royalty who was abandoning all for his faith, which had a certain resonance amongst the mujahedin, and this is y his followers are so strong. For they have seen him endure as they have when he could have lived like a pseudo-royal. His primary role however was construction of the bases and organization of all the necessary logistics. He was never a proper field commander. If we continue to look at it rationally. the CIA have since his opposition to stationing of US forces in the gulf during the Gulf war, tried to isolate him by discrediting him in his environment and globally in terms of morality, in which i think they have succeeded. And this is an age old conduct of war. As for the belief that removing OBL from the scene will make the world a more peaceful place for Muslims then young man I think you are mistaken. There was already much foreign instigated violene in the middle-east before his arrival. Mind u he didnt start the afghan war, either. In any case do u think that if Iraq was a Christian country and the scene was played out again things would have been different. I dont think so. A final thought, would the US have gone to war in IRAQ if OBL didnt exist?

As for OBL.
"an inspiration to those who love freedom"
"the moral equivalent of our founding fathers"

I think they offered to hand him over of any evidence against him was presented. They never offered him unconditionally.

Leonidas, they could If the Afghans wanted and If it suited 'most' of them, but they cant by force. U can hire an afghan but u cant buy one. In any case If any grouping finds it self at loss because of the US, then the US will become a tribe amongst tribes.

Sorry gharanai, but i must disgree with u there on two counts. Firstly OBL is not an american agent, he is an excuse. Secondly, u give the pentagon too much credit. Those twats couldnt spot a plane if it was coming at their window, let alone spot OBL from sattelites.

I totally agree with Maju's both points.
First the geopolitical plans and second that OBL works for Washington. The reason could be several but my point is that if the USA could find Sadam in a deep bunker than what is the reason that they could not find OBL?

It was OBL who distroyed the religious movement of Taleban and made them terrorists in eye of the world.

I would like to mention a movie to all of you and that is "Enemy of State", watch the movie and then you will get that how deep could the CIA and FBI go and how easy is it to find OBL (in case he is not setting in Pentagon or Area 51 , because those are sensitive areas and is harder to trace them there .)

Oh, please.  Another OBL conspiracy theory.

The geostrategic observation, however, I think is correct.