Enter the freelance terrorist in search of soft targets

THE greatest power in the history of the world is going to lose a war against a disorganised, lice-ridden opponent.

That's the truth of it.

The lice are a new factor, proposed by an observer in Afghanistan, who this week said that Osama Bin Laden was so fearful of being betrayed to the Americans that he must scratch the itch caused by body lice rather than call a doctor who might leak some details of his whereabouts.