U.S. Defence Secretary Donald Rumsfeld on Friday said his wife often wants to know where Osama bin Laden is hiding - and she usually pops the question shortly after he wakes up in the morning.
"When I walk out of the bedroom in the morning, my wife frequently rolls over and says 'Where's UBL?' " Rumsfeld told American sailors and marines aboard the USS Essex in Singapore on Friday, referring to al-Qaeda chief's initials.
According to The AP, Rumsfeld did not say what he normally tells his spouse in reply. But he admitted to his audience that their bosses in the Pentagon did not know bin Laden's specific location.
"Close doesn't count," Rumsfeld said. "In horseshoes, yes; in finding a terrorist person, no. There are a lot of people looking. If he's alive and well out there, he is very busy trying to avoid being caught.
"He is under pressure, but where he is, we don't know. If we knew, we would go find him.
But "until he's caught, he's not caught." (Albawaba.com)
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