"Who Are Those Guys?

One of my favorite westerns is George Roy Hill's "Butch Cassidy and The Sundance Kid". And the centerpiece of the film is the pursuit of the renegade bank robbers across country by lawmen led by a Native American tracker called Lord Baltimore. Every time Butch and Sundance think they've eluded them, they look back and see traces of the hunters still on their tails.

Which prompts them to keep asking each other in disbelief, "Who are those guys?"

Well, the U.S. military are employing a similar strategy in finding America's #1 enemy: "Native Americans Trackers To Hunt Bin Laden".

The unit, the Shadow Wolves, was recruited from several tribes, including the Navajo, Sioux, Lakota and Apache. It is being sent to Tajikistan and Uzbekistan to pass on ancestral sign-reading skills to local border units.
In recent years, members of the Shadow Wolves have mainly tracked smugglers along the US border with Mexico.

But the Taliban's resurgence in Afghanistan and the US military's failure to hunt down Osama bin Laden - still at large on his 50th birthday on Saturday - has prompted the Pentagon to requisition them.

US Defence Secretary Robert M.Gates said last month: "If I were Osama bin Laden, I'd keep looking over my shoulder."