U.S. Government sources forwarded a report stating President George Bush expressed   desire to capture al-Qaeda kingpin Osama Bin Laden before his term ends in January.

The National Terrorism Alert Response Center, an arm of the Department of Homeland Security, confirmed to CAN News Bush’s arrival in Britain Tuesday seeking to “enlist British special forces” as part of a stepped-up drive to hunt Bin Laden down.

Bush statements on fighting terrorists have not wavered in the waning months of his term, revealing the legacy impact he expects his accomplishments on that front will have.

CAN News filmed Bush at one recent rally before a pro-Bush crowd where he indicated the importance he places on continuing the fight to secure America against future terrorist attacks.

Getting Bin Laden at long last, seven years after September 11, 2001 and the nearly 3,000 Americans killed that day would seal that legacy, according to U.S. intelligence analysts.

Washington and London government leadership sources confirmed through the NTARC that the renewed hunt for Bin Laden is already underway and will intensify further.

“If [Bush]…can say he has killed Saddam Hussein and captured Bin Laden, he can claim to have left the world a safer place,” one US intelligence source said.

Bush’s arrival this week in Britain is the last stop on an eight-day farewell tour of Europe, and included tea with the Queen and dinner with Prime Minister Gordon Brown before private talks at No. 10 Downing Street.

Bush’s comments to an enthusiastic crowd at C-PAC in February included his warning to any future President not to let up on any effort to counter terrorists.

“We have a right to defend ourselves, even if some others disagree,” Bush said, adding action should not wait, “until we receive all the right permission slips from international organizations.”

Bush added effective action often has to be in motion before groups like move-on-dot-org can be consulted for their “approval,” a reference that brought thunderous applause from the C-PAC crowd. “My number-one priority is to protect you,” Bush said.

“We have gone on the offense against these extremists, we’re staying on the offense and we will not relent until we bring them all to justice,” he added.

“I firmly believe America’s defense in the world depends on defeating this enemy. [Despite political opposition,] we stood our ground, and we have seen results.”

Bush added his decision to attack Iraq, hunt down and bring Saddam Hussein to justice stands as one such positive result.

“We will fight the enemy on their turf so we won’t have to face them here in our homeland,” Bush said.

“The enemy recognizes they are on the wrong side of events: they are demoralized, they are on the defensive, and they will be defeated.”

Britain’s Special Boat Service (SBS) and the Special Reconnaissance Regiment are part of US-led efforts to capture Bin Laden in the vast empty mountainous regions of north Pakistan.

It is the first time they have operated across the Afghan border on a regular basis.

Pakistan Okayed the hunt, according to a British Special Forces source, including the use of Predator and Reaper unmanned aerial vehicles fitted with Hellfire missiles effective against specific terrorist targets.

One US intelligence source compared the “growing number of clandestine reconnaissance missions” inside Pakistan with those conducted in Laos and Cambodia during the Vietnam War.

Intelligence on the whereabouts of Bin Laden is sketchy, but some analysts believe he is in the Bajaur tribal zone in northwest Pakistan.

“Bush is swinging for the fences in the hope of scoring a home run,” said an intelligence source, using a baseball metaphor.

A Pentagon source said US forces have been effective in degrading al-Qaeda’s network in Pakistan, hopeful that would push Bin Laden to the Afghan border.

There, US. Military assets, including bombers with guided missiles, would lie in wait. “They are prepping for a major battle,” the Pentagon source said.

US army special operations unit, Delta, and the British SBS have been spearheading all primary operations in Pakistan.

More special forces are being committed to the capture and killing of al-Qaeda and Taliban fighters as intelligence from Britain’s Special Reconnaissance Regiment and its U.S. counterpart, the Security Co-ordination Detachment, improves operational strategies, sources said.