Did they let Bin Laden escape?

dlee1982

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Saturday August 06, 2005 · 11:25 PM PDT

2005/08/06 · 23:25

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/8853000/site/newsweek/

According to Newsweek: in an upcoming book, the CIA field commander at Tora Bora will say that he "had definitive intelligence that bin Laden was holed up at Tora Bora--intelligence operatives had tracked him--and could have been caught."

He goes on to fault the DoD for not providing enough support to the CIA/Special Ops forces to allow them to capture Bin Laden.

The man Bush said he wanted "dead or alive" was in our sights, and the Pentagon let him slip through its grasp? I hate to say this, but was this deliberate or was it just negligence? Either way, I'm, unfortunately, not very surprised.
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