Obama: Getting Bin Laden Still a Priority
The Hill reports:
During a White House news conference on Friday, President Obama reiterated his commitment to "capturing or killing" Osama bin Laden and al-Qaeda No. 2 Ayman al-Zawahiri.
"I think capturing or killing [them] would be extremely important to our national security," he said. "Doesn't solve all our problems, but it remains a high priority of this administration."
The president faced tough questions from reporters, who asked whether he was truly running a "smarter war on terror than the Bush administration" if he "doesn't seem to know" where bin Laden is.
Obama defended his tactics.
"One of the things that we've been very successful at over the last two years is to ramp up the pressure on al Qaeda and their key leaders," he said. "And as a consequence, they have been holed up in ways that have made it harder for them to operate. And part of what's happened is, is bin Laden has gone deep underground. Even Zawahiri, who is more often out there, has been much more cautious."
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