President-elect Barack Obama wants to renew the US commitment to finding Al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden, according to his national security advisers. The Obama team believes the Bush administration has downplayed the importance of catching the FBI's most-wanted terrorist because it has not been able to find him.

We will kill bin Laden. We will crush Al Qaeda. That has to be our biggest national security priority," Obama said during the presidential debate on October 7. But tracking down bin Laden won't be easy.

In May, Al Qaeda released an audiotape featuring bin Laden. But US intelligence officials say they haven't had a solid lead on the terrorist mastermind's whereabouts since late 2001, when he was nearly captured in a battle with US forces near Tora Bora, Afghanistan.

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