We Almost Got Him
A recently released US government report says our troops had Osama bin Laden within their grasp in late 2001 in Afghanistan. Calls for troop reinforcements were rejected, allowing him to simply walk off into a tribal area of Pakistan.
BBC News quotes the Foreign Relations Committee report as saying, “On or around 16 December [2001], two days after writing his will, Bin Laden and an entourage of bodyguards walked unmolested out of Tora Bora and disappeared into Pakistan’s unregulated tribal area,” where he is still thought to be hiding.
It was then Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld’s decision. According to the report, he “chose to rely on air strikes and untrained Afghan militias.”
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