However, the hunt for bin Laden seems to have gone as quiet as he has.
The US Government says its informants have told it that Mr Arnaout also handled money for Bin Laden.
The 20-year search for bin Laden was impeded by more than intelligence gathering.
The United States' ongoing hunt for bin Laden intensified after officials identified him as the mastermind behind the September 11 attacks.
The United States is searching for bin Laden but U.S. officials say they don't have any idea where bin Laden's is hiding.
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Angry residents in Exeter say they have been told they may have to wait for up to a month for bin collections.
In 2002, under pressure as the U.S. military and CIA searched for bin Laden, Abu Ghaith was smuggled into Iran from Afghanistan, prosecutors said.
Let's remember that after the George W. Bush administration went into Tora Bora looking for bin Laden and didn't find him, the search took a back seat to going into Iraq and getting Saddam Hussein.
For example, after his identity was disclosed, the local doctor who assisted in the manhunt for bin Laden under the cover of a polio vaccination program in Abbottabad was convicted of treason and sentenced to thirty-three years in a Pakistani prison.
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He said his boss at the restaurant told him to take two weeks off after the resulting front page article - which referred to Mr Butt as a "outlaw who had recruited hundreds of Britons to fight for Bin Laden" - as it was bad for business.
Scheuer used to be head of the bin Laden unit at the CIA's Counterterrorism Center (which is different from the newer National Counterterrorism Center), and he says he thinks his successor is the person leading the day-to-day hunt for bin Laden and the rest of al Qaeda's leadership.
Think of how long we looked for Osama Bin Ladin in similarly murky circumstances.
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The new film Zero Dark Thirty, about the decade-long search for Osama bin Laden, is the latest example of this phenomenon.
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But he referred to one as a person who "served as a personal bodyguard and driver for Osama Bin Laden, " the Associated Press reports.
Security Council Resolution 1333 levied additional sanctions on the Taliban, for harboring bin Laden and failing to close down terrorist training camps in that country.
He might even use Khartoum's mosques as a rallying-point for Mr bin Laden, in whom the faithful have so far shown a striking lack of interest.
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General John Abizaid, America's military chief in the region, said there was intelligence linking the attacks to Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, a fugitive extremist suspected of working for Osama bin Laden's terror network.
Last December, the New York Film Critics Circle and National Board of Review both named "Zero Dark Thirty, " a thriller about the hunt for Osama Bin Laden, the best picture of the year.
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Mr. DELL'ORTO: I don't want a soldier, when he kicks down a door in a hut in Afghanistan, searching for Osama bin Laden, to have to worry about whether, when he does so, and questions the individuals he finds inside, who may or may not be bin Laden's bodyguards, or even that individual himself, to worry about whether he's got to advise them of some rights before he takes a statement.
But Chris Latham's splendid 80m run was halted just short of the try-line as Worcester attempted to go for the jugular and Flood joined Collins in the sin-bin for killing the ball.
Matters grew more depressing for Viadana in the 22nd minute when second row Fabio Gumiero was sent to the sin bin for what appeared to be dissent towards referee Hugh Watkins.
There is even a "graveyard" bin for devices to be repurposed or recycled for parts.
First, he sent scrum-half Thomas to the sin-bin for not retreating at a penalty.
"The subsequent translation is making me crazy, " Cheryl Bormann, a lawyer for Mr. bin Attash, told Col.
Veteran flanker Williams may have been fortunate not to be banished to the sin-bin for that offence.
In a swab sample of one household bin for harmful bugs, Mr Boothby recorded a reading of 48, 029.
Mandy Leathers has also got rid of her wheelie bin for landfill waste - though admits to using street bins.
It even applied to taking out Saddam Hussein, America's prime candidate for removal before Bin Laden headed the wanted list.
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