President-elect Barack Obama wants to renew the U.S. commitment
to finding al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden, according to his national
security advisers. The Obama team believes the Bush administration
has downplayed the importance of catching the FBI's most-wanted
terrorist because it has not been able to find him.

"We will kill bin Laden. We will crush al Qaeda. That has to be our
biggest national security priority," Obama said during the presidential
debate on October 7. Intelligence officials believe bin Laden is hiding
in the tribal areas of northwest Pakistan, a remote and primitive region
with mountain peaks as tall as 14,000 feet (4,270 meters) that make the
terrain difficult to navigate...

+The Hunt for Bin Laden... cnn.com