U.S. Troops So Close to Bin Laden His Bodyguards Considered Killing Him

This is the problem with the sneaking around in the mountains searching for this guy, we can get really close and just miss. What a problem! We need to find a better way to search the hillsides for the hiding places.

FOXNews.com - Report: U.S. Troops So Close to Bin Laden His Bodyguards Considered Killing Him, Themselves - International News | News of the World | Middle East News | Europe News: "A patrol of U.S. soldiers was so close to stumbling on Usama bin Laden's mountain hideout along the Afghanistan-Pakistan border during the winter of 2004-05 that his bodyguards considered killing the terror architect and then themselves, according to a report published in the Sept. 3 issue of Newsweek.
A sentry spotted the patrol and radioed an alert to bin Laden's 40-man shield who were prepared to move 'the Sheik' — as bin Laden is known to his followers — to another location, Sheik Said, a senior Egyptian Al Qaeda operative, told the magazine
But the patrol was so close to the hideout that bodyguards were close to using the code word to kill bin Laden and then commit suicide, Newsweek reported."