Read this
http://abcnews.go.com/wire/World/ap20040228_266.html
If true, US forces have partitioned off an area in which Osama Bin Laden hides. The Bush administration may be waiting until closer to November or < 40% approval, at which point they give the order to have Osama arrested and publicly announced. Part of me wants to belive that no US leader would attempt to manipulate the public like this for the sake of an election, but it seems quite logical and within the character of this current administration...
The hardline Bush supporters will call this story some sort of "Liberal Propaganda" but look at the sources:
1. Iran's state radio
2. The Pakistani English Paper
The Nation
3. The Associated Press