US President George W. Bush walks past headstones of American soldiers at the Suresnes American Cemetery and Memorial in Paris June 14, 2008. [Xinhua]
US President George W. Bush has enlisted British special forces in a final attempt to capture Osama Bin Laden before he leaves the White House, according to a report of the Sunday Times.
Defense and intelligence sources in Washington and London confirmed that a renewed hunt was on for the leader of the September 11 attacks on the United States, the report said.
"If he (Bush) can say he has killed Saddam Hussein and captured Bin Laden, he can claim to have left the world a safer place," said a US intelligence source.
Intelligence on the whereabouts of Bin Laden is sketchy, but some analysts believe he is in northwestern Pakistan, the paper said.
A Pentagon source said US forces were rolling up Al-Qaeda's network in Pakistan in the hope of pushing Bin Laden towards the Afghan border, where the US military and bombers with guided missiles were lying in wait, it said.
(Xinhua News Agency June 16, 2008)
