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Sunday, November 29, 2009

Why We Failed to Get Osama Bin Laden

The report by the U.S. Senate Committee on Foreign Relations as to why we did not capture Osama Bin Laden and why it matters today.

For those of you who don't have time to read the entire Senate report, this Associated Press story gives a good rundown.

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...

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