Well, I hate the 9/11 conspiracy stuff at thsi point, as it is rather useless at thsi point. But I think the govt. knew where Bin Laden was the whole time. He was the CIAs man back in the late 70s when Russia invaded Afghan.
Strangely, adn perhaps sheer coincidence, Bin Laden was convicted of being the head of Al Qaeda in Jan-Feb of 2001 as well. off the testimony of a man that robbed him (bin Laden) and got caught in the Embassy bombing in Africa (late 90s).
That's how the whoe ball got rolling. Suppposedly, this one man who was a liar, thief and cheat (and owed Bin Laden money) played the hand that there was a large network of terroists headed by Bin Laden. Which is how he got convicted. This man (his name I forget) walked away with US protection.
9 months later, 18 Saudi's allegedly hijacked planes and crashed them into buildings. No one saw it coming, but by noon Sept 11th, the govt.s of the world and the media had already pinned the job on Bin Laden.
Strange days ever since.