6^th December, 2009 US

MR Gates told ABC NEWS in remarks to be broadcast on Sunday, well we don’t know for a fact where Osama bin laden is, and if we did we would have got him”. A Taliban detainee in Pakistan told the BBC last week that he has information of laden in Afghanistan.

However, Mr. Gates told that he could not confirm the information yet. When asked by ABC this week programmed when the US last had good intelligence on whereabouts of laden, Mr. Gates said, “It’s been a year”. He could not confirm the details of the Taliban detainee, who to have met the AL-Qaeda leader numerous times before 9/11. The detainee said that in January and February he met the trusted contact who had seen bin laden 15 to 20 days earlier in Afghanistan. Bin laden previously was to taught to be hiding in Pakistan side of the border with Afghanistan. But the detainee said, the militants where avoiding the border to get safe from the US drone attack.

MR Gates, comment came after the US president barack obama announced the decision this week of sending 30,000 more troops to Afghanistan. He recalled that the US was fighting there is response to the 9/11 attack against America by AL-Qaeda and had made decision to invade only after the Taliban refused to turn over Osama bin laden.