Yeah, Right, Whatever

In the Jerusalem Post has an interesting quote from the Chief of General Staff for the IDF:

The IDF's chief of General Staff said in an interview published Wednesday that the location of al-Qaida leader Osama Bin Laden is known, and he is in hiding on the Afghanistan-Pakistan frontier.

"I don't think that they don't known where he is. There are operational difficulties in putting your hands on him, for all sorts of reasons. But it is not true that they don't know where he is located," Chief of General Staff Lt.-Gen. Moshe Ya'alon told Maariv.

Ya'alon, a former head of IDF Intelligence, said, "Ultimately, in order to get your hands on him you will need what we perfected and that is what we call 'targeted assassination.'"

Well, now... that's kind of interesting, isn't it? We know where OBL is, and the only way to get him is by "targeted assassination"... I can buy that. (Although... aren't all assassinations targeted?) If we know where he is, we could take him out at any time with a Bunker Buster. But, that's very messy and trying to do a DNA test on the goo on cave walls is just... ineffective.

Is it bad of me to hope this general is right? And is it bad of me to hope that the CIA is all over this? (h/t to Laurence at the Dead Pool)