I read that Osama bin Laden and the top Al-Qaeda leadership are not in Pakistan, making US missile attacks against them futile, according to the country’s interior minister.

“If Osama was in Pakistan we would know, with all the thousands of troops we have sent into the tribal areas in recent months,” Rehman Malik told The Sunday Times. “If he and all these four or five top people were in our area they would have been caught, the way we are searching.” He added: “According to our information Osama is in Afghanistan, probably Kunar, as most of the activities against Pakistan are being directed from Kunar.”

But do we trust Malik? How about we raze Kunar but for insurance purposes we continue to bomb the hell out of those parts of Pakistan which are clearly redoubts for Al Queda? I do not believe that Bin Laden is alive but I am sure that militant Islam IS still functioning so the pressure must not be let up.