NEW YORK, April 20: Where is Osama bin Laden and why is he still on the run is the question on the mind of most Americans since the Al Qaeda leader laid claim to the 9/11 attacks on New York’s World Trade Centre towers and Pentagon in Washington.

“Where in the world is Osama bin Laden” a documentary made by Morgan

Spurlock, the acclaimed film-maker who produced the funny film on McDonalds fast food, “Super Size Me”, ventures to answer such questions.

The New York Times film critic A.O Scott wrote in a review of the film that: “Where in the World Is Osama bin Laden?” is not so much a documentary as the movie equivalent of a non-fiction stunt book. You know the kind I mean: An author spends a year doing something just nutty and topical enough to earn a nice advance and shares the resulting insights with the public.

Morgan Spurlock, the director of this film, has also written a tie-in volume that recounts, in somewhat greater detail than the movie, his half-joking search for the world’s most notorious terrorist.

Mr Scott observed in the review: “The information he uncovers will astonish just about anyone who has managed to get through the years since Sept 11, 2001, without opening a book or a newspaper, or for that matter seeing any of the dozens of more sober-minded, better-informed documentaries that deal with terrorism, American foreign policy, Islam and related matters. Even though we Americans are, according to Mr Spurlock, conditioned by “the media” to regard all Muslims as violent extremists, he discovers that a lot of them are actually quite nice.