“If they’ve got him, it makes their guilt and collusion even more clear,” says a US official.Taliban Says Bin Laden Is in Its Control. They say they are moving him around for his safety and encourage him to comply voluntarily with clerics’ request that he leave, but won’t hand him over. “In a meeting with a small group of reporters Sunday, (the Taliban ambassador to Pakistan) said the Taliban has been constantly guarding and protecting Bin Laden for more than two years, since the United Nations called for his hand-over after the U.S. indicted him in the 1998 bombings of two American embassies in East Africa.” Prospects for avoidance of a US frontal assault on the Taliban regime, if there ever were any, would appear to fade with this news… LA Times