U.S. intelligence agencies believe Osama bin Laden is isolated

from al Qaeda and spending much of his energy merely surviving, the head of the CIA said on Thursday.

CIA Director Michael Hayden said hunting down bin Laden remains his agency’s priority. “He is putting a lot of energy into his own survival — a lot of energy into his own security,” Hayden said in a speech at the Atlantic Council in Washington.

“In fact, he appears to be largely isolated from the day-to-day operations of the organization he nominally heads,” he said. In recent weeks, there have been several U.S. missile strikes by unmanned drones around the Afghanistan-Pakistan border.

Source [ CNN ]