LET'S GET THE GOOGLE EARTH GEEKS ON THE BIN LADEN CASE

So now Google Earth's new oceanographic views have found the lost city of Atlantis, which they then proceeded to deny. Okay, let them have their little secret, nobody really gives a damn about Atlantis. Let them team up with National Geographic and do a nice TV special on the place. Atlantis is that fabled advanced civilization of folk lore attributed with all sorts of modern gizmos and inventions, with the sole exception of being able to escape to any of the many other nearby land masses when their country sunk beneath the ocean waves. So much for being able to think of everything.

But the question is, if Google Earth can have a picture of everybody on the planet's house and every feature of every wilderness and now they're providing detailed images of the oceans and what's underneath them, isn't it about time that the United States Armed Forces enlists Google Earth to find the most wanted man on the planet? That would be Osama bin Laden, mastermind of the 9/11 attacks on the United States and dozens of other deadly terrorist operations. The guy's been on the run for years, eluding the United States Army and Air Force by hiding in the mountains of Pakistan and Afghanistan. Even the Predator drones that have been killing Taliban and Al Qaeda fighters in droves haven't spotted this guy, who at at 6 foot, 6 inches, is possibly the tallest guy in the whole region.

So, let's draft the Google Geeks. They've already spotted the Predator drones in Pakistan and zoomed in on a sniper over there, so how about finding a basketball player-sized Arab who uses a walking stick? It's not like there's a whole bunch of them cruising around over there. And no doubt the guy has himself a posse. What's the point of being an evil mastermind if you're not surrounded by henchmen? There will be bodyguards, lookouts, drivers and the guy who operates his video equipment when he makes his his latest death-to-America video. So you instruct the Google geeks to look for a bunch of heavily armed guys in turbans surrounding a guy who stands head and shoulders over them. For the guys who found Atlantis that should be a snap.

Our Armed Services so far have only been able to kill and capture an endless supply of bin Laden's # 2 men, an unenviable job if ever there was one and one that has expendable written all over it. You have to figure the guy who paints the names on the office door for the #2 man in Al Qaeda Headquarters is one busy guy. But it's Osama bin Laden we've got to get, the Goldfinger of terrorists. Without him Al Qaeda is nothing, just another two bit jihad outfit run by mouth breathing goons without the brains to plan a meal, much less a major terror attack. But so far he's been harder to find than Waldo in a crowd of Mormons. It's time for the Armed Forces to take the next step and bring in the big guns, the Google Geeks.

Once they find bin Waldo, they could give the Predator drone guys in Nevada his coordinates and they could send him to his 72 virgins reward along with his henchmen. Problem solved, a monster given justice and then America can clear our troops out of that part of the world and leave them to their own devices. It's pretty apparent at this point that neither Afghanistan or Pakistan are places that we can understand, or even want to. Places that gladly provide sanctuary to likes of bin Laden and the Taliban aren't about to have their hearts and minds won over by America any time soon. So get the Google Geeks to find the mastermind, kill him and all his henchmen and then leave with a warning that Google's got their eye in the sky on them. You can't hide from Google Earth. Ask Atlantis.