LAKE BUENA VISTA - Only one day after Mickey Mouse appeared on Palestinian television teaching children about AK-47s and Jihad, the U.S. has launched a surprise raid on Disney World in an effort to capture the rebel rodent. The operation, which commenced at daybreak, was designed to take Mickey by surprise. So far, troops have come up empty-handed.

“We arrived at The Magic Kingdom at 0600 hours and the place was deserted,” informs an unidentified soldier. “No characters, no civilians… nothing. We feared that somebody tipped him off. By 0900, Main Street U.S.A. was swarming with activity, but our objective was nowhere to be found. We did find a cryogenically frozen corpse beneath Space Mountain, but we believe it’s unrelated.”

Officials became worried after a full day in the park failed to produce a single sighting of the iconic insurrectionist, but some vacationers claim to have spent an entire vacation without seeing him.

“We spotted Minnie Mouse twice, Goofy a half-dozen times, and we couldn’t get rid of Pluto”, claim officials.

After nightfall, troops believed the target was cornered in “Mickey’s Country House”, but they failed to produce the mutinous mouse after waiting in line for an hour and a half. It’s now believed that the French may be providing Mickey with asylum at Euro Disney.

The operation is expected to cost the U.S. military close to $1.5 billion in equipment, manpower, and admission fees. Experts say that’s cheap in comparison to last month’s disastrous raid on Sesame Place, which only produced an expired visa belonging to “The Count”.

Today’s raid is the second largest on an American theme park since Willy Wonka’s Candinistas stormed Hershey Park during the summer of ’62.