USA Today is reporting that in 2002 the U.S. pulled a team of special forces who specialized in the Middle East off of the hunt for Osama Bin Laden so they could be sent to Iraq. They were replaced by troops with an expertise in Spanish cultures. The report appeared one day after the Bush administration’s former counterterrorism chief Richard Clarke told “Meet the Press” “If we catch (bin Laden) this summer, which I expect, it’s two years too late.” He added “Because during those two years when forces were diverted to Iraq… al-Qaeda has metamorphosized into a hydra-headed organization with cells that are operating autonomously, like the cells that operated in Madrid recently.”