Are you serious? If so, where have you been for the last 18 months?
" completely disregarded the story before reading it."
exactly-- we're supposed to believe that the story was read and absorbed everything within a little over 1 min 30secs (assuming he clicked on the story immediately after you posted it)...and then had time to form an opinion enough to dismiss it?
Back then Bin Laden was living in a tent. He was moving during the day and moved to a new location every night. Now he is living in a cave but moves every day. The odds of hitting his tent or cave in a missile attack are at best about 10,000 to 1. Our information is always a few hours old.. and he has always moved by the time we strike. He does not know when or where attacks are coming. He just always fears attacks from some source. Such attacks on bin Laden have been likely for years. He escapes killing or capture by constantly moving. He has been doing it for a very long time.
The only thing that surprised bin Laden by the Clinton attack was that it took bubba so long to mount one.
If our military could hit a person moving constantly and in hiding we would have used a missile to get Saddam, and one to get Bin Laden. We have tried at hundreds of times since the fighting started in Afghanistan. We bombed and used missiles on a number of places trying to get Saddam. But it took men on the ground searching possible hiding sights to find him. It will take the same thing to get bin Laden.
Back during the Clinton administration bin Laden was using cell phones to communicate. When ever he used one, he would move. He is not stupid. When someone left his camp, he then moved his camp. If the person who left was to come back they were only told a place to meet a guide who would then bring them to the new camp location. If the guide did not return in a short time they moved again.
It doesn't take much of an I.Q. to figure out how to avoid an attack or capture. Bin Laden is certainly not as dumb as those who believe this crapy report are.
Richard Clarke believes there are people dumb enough to believe him ... and Clarke is right. It would take a real non thinker to believe our military could make a hit on one try for Clinton and then fail in at least several hundred additional tries for Bush 43. WE have a 25 million dollar bounty on his head. It serves two purposes.. Peaple working with Laden try to earn it. But bin Laden moves fast enough so no one has collected it yet. But the mear fact of the 25 million puts him in a position where he can take zero chances and can trust no one.