NO offence but Ijaz is a Pakistani. Since 90% of serious intell sources state Bin Laden is probably in Pakistan, I would take with a grain of salt a claim by a Pakistani that Bin Laden is elsewhere.

I hate to be PC about this, but Ijaz is an American of Pakistani descent, born in Florida of Pakistani parents and raised in the US, attending US public school and then MIT. His father was a nuclear physicist and his mother was (is?) a solar physicist. His business partners today are Americans.

Is he suspect? Of course, he is a single source and has his own interests. He is a wealthy businessman. He is a practicing muslim. He has many ties to Pakistan and many other countries.

I regard his statements as "raw intelligence" - they may be true, they may not be. However, they are certainly newsworthy. After all, we live in an age where the media reports all sorts of rumors about things of much less import.

As far as US intel sources, I do not have much faith in US intel in the middle east. They totally missed 9-11. The missed what appears to have been Saddam's Grand Deception on WMD's. They were dramatically wrong on the USSR's economy. They failed to predict that Turkey would refuse access to Iraq to our forces.

They are good at technical intelligence, but there is every reason to believe that technical intelligence is not adequate to locate Bin Laden, since a Senator released the highly clasified information tat we were tracking Bin Laden via his satellite phone.

Furthermore, we don't know what the US really knows, nor should we.

John M Your last three words are the 'money quote'.

In building your amazing Aqua application, one of the most important things to consider is the Dock. There are three things your app needs to be "Dock Compliant." Now, I write this knowing that the Dock will be going through some major changes soon, but for the most part, these should still hold true.

Due to the positioning of the Dock, remember that when you build an application, you have to be sure that new document window sizes and positions do not violate the Dock's space. Dock is temperamental and Dock loves his space. If you default to a window size that expands behind the dock, users will have a difficult time reaching the navigation and resize areas at the bottom of the screen. I can personally say that more than once I have been rather peeved that I couldn't get to an area of the window to resize because the default window settings always pop up behind the Dock. In addition, the new Dock in 10.1 will allow users to position their Dock location on either side of the screen as well.

Adhere to Layout Guidelines. Did you leave 12 pixels between your push buttons? Does the positioning of your pop-up menus make sense, and when do you use a pop-up versus a scrolling list? Are you using the right types of buttons for the proper functions?

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