Osama bin Laden was cornered and within reach of US troops in the Afghanistan mountains of Tora Bora in late 2001 when America’s military leaders made the costly decision not to attack the terror leader with the massive force at their disposal, …
Read Original Story: Donald Rumsfeld blamed for failing to kill cornered Osama bin Laden – Times Online
CAIRO – The US army wasted a golden opportunity to capture Al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden in Afghanistan’s Tora Bora mountains in 2001, according to a report by the influential Senate Foreign Relations Committee. "The review of existing literature, …
Read Original Story: US Let Bin Laden Escape: Senate – Islam Online
Photo: AP A US Senate report says top military leaders during the Bush administration had an opportunity to capture or kill Osama bin Laden in December 2001 in Afghanistan, but they failed to send enough American troops to attack his hideout. …
Read Original Story: Report Blames US Military Leaders for Missing Bin Laden in 2001 – Voice of America
Washington, DC (AHN) – A new Senate report blasts the Bush administration’s December 2001 effort to capture or kill al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden in the Afghanistan mountains of Tora Bora. The report, written by the Senate Foreign Relations, …
Read Original Story: Report Blasts 2001 Battle To Get Bin Laden – AHN
In advance of Obama’s Afghanistan policy roll out this week, a new Senate Foreign Relations Committee report investigates Osama bin Laden’s December 2001 escape from Tora Bora. "Like several previous accounts, the committee’s report blames Gen. …
Read Original Story: Ahead of Afghan policy roll out, new Senate report on Bin Laden's escape from … – Politico
Pakistani police search displaced people at a camp in in South Waziristan. Photograph: Saood Rehman/EPA Gordon Brown today criticised Pakistan’s record on fighting terrorism and called on the country’s political and military leaders to do more to find …
Read Original Story: Gordon Brown questions Pakistan's record on fighting terrorism – guardian.co.uk
This is pretty convenient; a Senate report details the “escape” of Osama Bin Laden in Afghanistan in 2001. Seems that Senator John Kerry requested a thorough report of the “Tora Bora” incident in which CIA operatives and Special Ops were unable to …
Read Original Story: Senate Report: Osama Bin Laden Could Have Been Caught In 2001 – The Admonition (blog)
The latest news and analysis on the war in Afghanistan and the debate in Washington over its future. (AP) Osama bin Laden was unquestionably within reach of US troops in the mountains of Tora Bora when American military leaders made the crucial and …
Read Original Story: Senate Report: Bin Laden Was Within Grasp – CBS News
The US military missed an opportunity to capture or kill Osama bin Laden, the al-Qaeda leader, when he was "within grasp" in the Tora Bora mountains of Afghanistan in December 2001, a US report has concluded. The Senate foreign affairs committee report …
Read Original Story: Bin Laden 'within grasp' in 2001 – Aljazeera.net
Understand that–for better or worse–the new report released by John Kerry on how Osama bin Laden escaped at Tora Bora is a designed to be a political document. It offers the following “irony” to the chattering classes the weekend before Obama announces …
Read Original Story: The Irony of Tora Bora – Firedoglake (blog)
