Here's a news item which ought to make the Kerry forces tremble:

ISLAMABAD, Pakistan (AP) - The United States and its allies have moved closer to capturing Osama bin Laden in the last two months, a top U.S. counterterrorism official said in a television interview broadcast Saturday.

"If he has a watch, he should be looking at it because the clock is ticking. He will be caught," Joseph Cofer Black, the U.S. State Department coordinator for counterterrorism, told private Geo television network.

Asked if concrete progress had been made during the last two months - when Pakistan has arrested dozens of terror suspects including some key al-Qaida operatives - Black said, "Yes, I would say this."

Black, who briefed a group of Pakistani journalists after talks with officials here Friday, said he could not predict exactly when bin Laden and other top al-Qaida fugitives would be nabbed.

Well once again, I question the timing! And in advance, too! (Take that ye miserable Laphamites!)

There ought to be some law preventing evil presidents from doing things (or allowing things to happen) that might make them look good in an election year.

Bush has a lot of nerve even trying to capture bin Laden right now. It's dirty politics at its worst, because the capture of bin Laden would carry the clear implication that Bush is competent to fight the war on terror, when we all know he's a chickenhawk draftdodging partner of bin Laden. It's just another carefully orchestrated attack on Kerry's patriotism.

Kerry should demand that Bush back off any and all bin Laden capture plans.

And Bush should apologize, of course.

UPDATE: Here's the inimitable Jeff Goldstein:

Well then I question the timing of those who question the timing. (Via Glenn Reynolds.)