"The Phantom of Corleone" is arrested.Bin Laden still missing.
Italy have managed to arrest Bernardo Provenzano, the head of the Sicilian Mafia who has been on the run for more than four decades and was Italy's most wanted man.
Provenzano, known as the "Phantom of Corleone" after the hill town in Sicily made famous by the Godfather films, has been running the Mafia since 1993, when former "boss of bosses" Toto Riina was arrested in the Sicilian capital Palermo.
Now most people will be aware that SISMI were the people who delivered the forged documents on Saddam attempting get Uranium from Niger into the hands of the Americans.
So they're not the most reliable bunch going. Nor are their resources anywhere near as large as the US resources that Bush has at his disposal as he attempts to arrest Osama bin Laden.
But perhaps the Italian success compared to the American failure can best be put down to the fact that no Italian official has ever claimed not to care where Provenzano was.
"I don't know where bin Laden is. I have no idea and really don't care. It's not that important. It's not our priority."- G.W. Bush,
3/13/02
"I am truly not that concerned about him."- G.W. Bush, responding to a question about bin Laden's whereabouts, 3/13/02 (The New American,
4/8/02)
I seriously doubt whether any Italian who expressed such sentiments about Provenzano would still be in a job. It's a bad day when the Italians beat you for efficiency, but Georgie's managed it.
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