I think if you trawl through the political commentators, Doug - and I'm not talking about the comic-book ones - that has been a pretty widespread interpretion of the implication of statements by Bush and Rumsfeld. As I put it "every pundit writing in the media seems to be pretty clear that, so far as the US is concerned, the aim is not to catch Bin Laden, but to kill him."

They may be wrong and "every" is a rhetorical exaggeration on my part, since obviously I haven't seen what every pundit has written - I should have said that that is how all the ones I have seen have interpreted it. But I haven't seen too much about any statements from Bush and Rumsfeld complaining about the misinterpretation. Again, perhaps there have been such statements, and they haven't been reported too widely.