If such a capability as a blimp in low orbit exists that permits continuous visual and electronic surveillance, then we obviously know where Bin Laden is, and we obviously currently surveil everyone who reports to him and we surveil well down the chain of command.

In some future year we will learn that we knew of the Underwear bomber plot well in advance and that the Underwear bomber failed because the CIA Dirty Tricks Bureau had replaced his explosive underwear with dud underwear! And that the CIA had replaced the Time Square Bomb with a dud!

Today we bomb the terrorists. We don’t try to capture them or their papers because why bother?
This skynet has domestic uses.