The NY Sun blames the former U.S. ambassador to Pakistan for hindering Osama bin Laden’s capture (thanks, Prashant):

[Former U.S. ambassador to Pakistan] Nancy Powell refused to allow the distribution in Pakistan of wanted posters, matchbooks, and other items advertising America’s $25 million reward for information leading to the capture of Mr. bin Laden… thousands of matchbooks, posters, and other material… translated into Urdu, Pashto, and other local languages – remained “impounded” on American Embassy grounds from 2002 to 2004…

A single matchbook helped lead to the capture of Mir Amal Kansi, who gunned down several CIA employees at the front gates of the agency’s Langley, Va., headquarters in 1993. Kansi was arrested in Pakistan in 1995 when a local fingered him for the $5 million reward…

Mr. Kirk [R-Illinois] said that he raised the issue directly with the ambassador. According to the congressman, she replied that she had “six top priorities” and finding Mr. bin Laden was only one of them. She listed other priorities: securing supply lines for American and allied forces in Afghanistan, shutting down the network of nuclear proliferator A.Q. Khan, preventing a nuclear war between Pakistan and India, and forestalling a radical Islamic takeover of the government of Pakistan, a key American ally.

The conservative rag may have an ulterior motive in blaming the State Department instead of the president for making bin Laden a low priority. Either way, nailing that bastard is still my #1 voting issue — 3.5 years and counting.

In other news, Pakistani businessman Humayun Khan makes a convincing case for why he’s not buying parts for nukes:

Humayun Khan… denied any involvement with the recent shipments, saying that “someone else” ordered the oscilloscopes and the switches, had them shipped to his office, then snatched them somewhere along the way. “It’s very tragic,” Humayun Khan said. “You don’t know where these things are landing. They come through and they vanish.”

Yes, boss, ‘someone else’ charged the strippers to the company AmEx, had them sent to our office and then snatched them somewhere along the way. It’s tragic, I say, tragic.