WASHINGTON — Osama bin Laden was unquestionably within reach of U.S. troops in the mountains of Tora Bora when American military leaders made the crucial and costly decision not to pursue the terrorist leader with massive force, a Senate report says.
The report asserts that the failure to kill or capture bin Laden at his most vulnerable in December 2001 has had lasting consequences beyond the fate of one man. Bin Laden's escape laid the foundation for today's reinvigorated Afghan insurgency and inflamed the internal strife now endangering Pakistan, it says.
Staff members for the Senate Foreign Relations Committee's Democratic majority prepared the report at the request of the chairman, Sen. John Kerry, as President Barack Obama prepares to boost U.S. troops in Afghanistan.
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Update: The full report is here (pdf).
Update 2: According to report, "The decision not to deploy American forces to go after Bin Laden or block his escape was made by Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld and his top commander, General Tommy Franks."
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Update: The full report is here (pdf).
Update 2: According to report, "The decision not to deploy American forces to go after Bin Laden or block his escape was made by Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld and his top commander, General Tommy Franks."
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Again we were lied to and this is really a big one. For years the Media has reported that it was Clinton who caused Osama to be alive. Now it makes sence Osama was used as a Ruse to continue the Fear. Yes Osama couldn't be captured or we'd learn the truth that he had nothing to do with the 9/11 attack. It was never about Bid Laden it was about the Greed for Oil and it worked really well. Americans brought the lies hook line and sinker while thousands of our soldiers died for nothing and a milliion Iraq families died because of the lies Bush/Cheney told to everyone.
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