THE BORDER REPORT

Having a talk with a colleague this morning about Osama bin Laden, he brought up the 2000 U.S.S. Cole suicide attacks. The U.S. maintained as early as this July that bin Laden ordered the attack, information it gleaned by water-boarding the Yemeni, Abd al Rahim al Nashiri. The Pentagon says bin Laden personally ordered al Nashiri to launch the hit that killed 17 people. Except, even now, eight years after that attack, the U.S. doesn't seem to be charging bin Laden with the attack. At the risk of beating a dead horse, here's that Wanted Poster again:

BIN LADEN IS WANTED IN CONNECTION WITH THE AUGUST 7, 1998, BOMBINGS OF THE UNITED STATES EMBASSIES IN DAR ES SALAAM, TANZANIA, AND NAIROBI, KENYA. THESE ATTACKS KILLED OVER 200 PEOPLE. IN ADDITION, BIN LADEN IS A SUSPECT IN OTHER TERRORIST ATTACKS THROUGHOUT THE WORLD.

Granted, I'm not privy to everything, of course. But it seems to me that when the U.S. offers a $25 million bounty, it'd try to evoke some outrage to spur the action.

So I went to U.S. District Court to look for bin Laden's indictment, and this is what I found:

1:98-cr-00539-UA USA v. Bin Laden Date filed: 06/10/1998 Date of last filing: 11/04/1998

History

Doc. No.	Dates	Description
1	Filed: 06/10/1998 Entered: 11/05/1998	Indictment (Sealed)
--	Filed: 11/04/1998 Entered: 11/05/1998	Indictment Unsealed
2	Filed: 11/04/1998 Entered: 11/05/1998	Order
3	Filed: 11/04/1998 Entered: 11/05/1998	Affidavit

The most wanted man in the history of the United States was last charged in 1998, probably for the Kenya attacks. Since then, the U.S. has never charged him with any other attacks. If they had, the indictment would be there, sealed probably, but it'd be there.

I know, I know, I'm at deadly risk of being labeled a truther, but seriously, if he was the intellectual author of these attacks, why hasn't he ever been charged?