U.S. pulls out all the stops to capture Bin Laden

WASHINGTON -- The United States has invested maximum resources to capture Saudi millionaire Osama Bin Laden, alleged to have masterminded the bombings of two U.S. embassies in Africa and hiding in Afghanistan.

FBI director Louis Freeh that the United States has recruited numerous countries to locate and capture Bin Laden, regarded as the leading financier of Islamic terrorists around the world. He said Bin Laden has been placed on the Top 10 list of fugitives and continues to pose a threat.

"The efforts to apprehend him are continuing and are extensive, not just by our government, but many other governments," Freeh said on Wednesday. "There is an international initiative to find him, arrest him, bring him to justice."

Freeh said Bin Laden has agents in dozens of countries. He said they could commit the sort of bombings that destroyed the U.S. embassies in Dar al-Salaam and Nairobi in August.

"So all of our resources and those of others are placed at this task to find him and we've done everything we can do, in some cases very successfully, to preclude planned attacks," he said. "But we're not at all comfortable with the situation."

Freeh said that Bin Laden remains in Afghanistan despite reports that Bin Laden has been expelled by the Taleban.