WASHINGTON, Feb 6: US President George W. Bush on Tuesday brushed off concerns that Osama bin Laden is still at large.

“Oh, I know, the news media likes to say ‘Where’s Osama bin Laden’?” Bush told an audience in Pittsburgh. “He’s not the issue. The issue is the international terror.

“There’s no cave deep enough for him to hide.

“He can run, and he thinks he can hide. But we’re not going to give up until he and every other potential killer and every other body who hates freedom will be brought to justice.”

US government, military and intelligence officials are growing increasingly frustrated, the USA Today newspaper said.

“Every day sometimes every hour, you get a report from someone saying they’ve seen or heard bin Laden in a different corner of the world,” an unnamed intelligence official told the daily.—dpa