This is pretty convenient; a Senatereport 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)
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
LONDON, Nov 29 (Reuters) – British Prime Minister Gordon Brown has called on Pakistan to take tougher action against al Qaeda and step up its efforts to track down the group’s leader Osama bin Laden. Brown said the efforts of British and coalition …
Read Original Story: Pakistan must step up action against al Qaeda-Brown – Reuters
While I was watching Meet the Press on Nov. 15, I noticed how Secretary of State Hillary Clinton often used the phrase "the past eight years." Honest people will admit that this phrase is code for "blame it on Bush." During her presidential primary …
Read Original Story: Lame blame game – Concord Monitor
PTI Al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden was cornered by US forces in the Afghan mountains of Tora Bora just months after 9/11 and could have been killed or captured, but the military top brass decided not to attack him with the massive force at their …
Read Original Story: Osama bin Laden 'within reach of US troops after 9/11' – Hindustan Times
Gordon Brown sought to blame Pakistan on Sunday for the persistent failure to catch Osama bin Laden eight years after the terrorist attacks of 9/11. The British prime minister said the UK wanted to see “more …
Read Original Story: Brown blames Pakistan for failure to catch bin Laden – Financial Times
WASHINGTON — As President Obama vows to “finish the job” in Afghanistan by sending more troops, the Senate Foreign Relations Committee has completed a detailed look back at a crucial failure early in the battle against Al Qaeda: the …
Read Original Story: Report Explores 2001 Escape by bin Laden – New York Times
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
Bin Laden expected to die. His last will and testament, written on December 14 (2001), reflected his fatalism. ”Allah commended to us that when death approaches any of us that we make a bequest to parents and next of kin and to Muslims …
Read Original Story: Report: Bin Laden 'Expected To Die' – NPR
WASHINGTON (AP) — A Senatereport asserts that Osama bin Laden was unquestionably within reach of US troops in Afghanistan’s Tora Bora mountains in December 2001. But it says American military leaders decided not to pursue the terrorist leader with …
Read Original Story: Missed opportunity…Gatecrashers' price…Murdering moose? – 9&10 News
