<p>“Well, we don’t know for a fact where Osama bin Laden is. If we did, we’d go get him,” Gates told ABC News when asked if Pakistan was doing enough to catch the terrorist mastermind. <br /><br />His remarks follow reports that bin Laden could be hiding in the Pakistani side of the Pak-Afghan border.<br /><br />Asked when was the last time the US had any good intelligence on Osama’s whereabouts, the defence secretary said: “I think it’s been years.”<br /><br />About reports on a Taliban detainee’s claim in Pakistan that one of his contacts had met bin Laden in Afghanistan early this year, Gates said he could not confirm this. <br /><br />The unnamed Taliban detainee had recently claimed in an interview to BBC that his “friend” had met bin Laden and told him that he could arrange a meeting for him also.</p>
<p>“Well, we don’t know for a fact where Osama bin Laden is. If we did, we’d go get him,” Gates told ABC News when asked if Pakistan was doing enough to catch the terrorist mastermind. <br /><br />His remarks follow reports that bin Laden could be hiding in the Pakistani side of the Pak-Afghan border.<br /><br />Asked when was the last time the US had any good intelligence on Osama’s whereabouts, the defence secretary said: “I think it’s been years.”<br /><br />About reports on a Taliban detainee’s claim in Pakistan that one of his contacts had met bin Laden in Afghanistan early this year, Gates said he could not confirm this. <br /><br />The unnamed Taliban detainee had recently claimed in an interview to BBC that his “friend” had met bin Laden and told him that he could arrange a meeting for him also.</p>