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Ivan writes "According to the DARPA Grand Challenge Status Board, 2 bots were withdrawn before the race started and the remaining 13 were all disabled. Red Team and SciAutonics II tied at 7 miles, a bit short of the 142 miles required." CNN has coverage and interviews.
The only reason he is doing is this because they are not commiting the right resources to it. If they would unleash the full might of the US military and drop a few nukes they would get his ass.
They are committing more military.. Operation Mountain Storm is now commencing with troops moving to Afghanistan's southeastern border to find Osama. I don't really see what difference capturing or killing him would make anyway.. other than making him a martyr and giving a slight political boost to Bush. Has it really made any difference that Saddam was captured?