Have I missed something? Is Bush finally resuming his search for Osama? After all, he is quoted as saying: “I don’t know where bin Laden is. I have no idea and really don’t care. It’s not that important. It’s not our priority“, and: “I am truly not that concerned about him.”

No doubt about it though, a Saddam’style hanging of Osama would be a much needed boost to republicans before the November elections.

Musharraf tells U.S.: Stay out of Pakistan

ISLAMABAD, Pakistan (CNN) — Pakistan President Pervez Musharraf has made it clear that a U.S. military mission to capture Osama bin Laden or other top al Qaeda leaders on Pakistani soil would be unwelcome and “against the sovereignty of Pakistan.”

President Musharraf says the United States would regret attempting to hunt for Osama bin Laden in western Pakistan.

President Musharraf told the Singapore Straits Times that his military has the experience to operate in the mountainous terrain near the Afghan border and if the United States went in they would “regret that day.”

The New York Times reported last Sunday that the Bush administration is considering expanding covert operations in the western part of Pakistan to shore up support for Musharraf’s government and to find bin Laden and his second in command, Ayman al-Zawahiri.

“Nobody will come here until we ask them to come and we haven’t asked them,” Musharraf told the Strait Times this week.

Strait Times reporter Anthony Paul asked Musharraf: “If the Americans came, would you treat that as an invasion?”

“Certainly,” Musharaff said. “If they come without our permission, that’s against the sovereignty of Pakistan.”

He said if there is good intelligence that bin Laden is hiding in Pakistan “the methodology of getting him will be discussed together and we’ll attack the target together.”