Tag Archives : Tora Bora

It’s been 8 years of cat-and-mouse chase between the US government and Osama bin Laden, the seemingly slippery leader of the slithery terrorist group al-Qaeda. With the US doing all the chasing and bin Laden doing all the skirting, one wonders at the vaunted reputation of American spies. In the news not too far back, we learned that the US military [...]

According to Rep. Maurice Hinchey, a Democratic congressman from New York, ‘the Bush administration permitted the world’s most notorious terrorist mastermind to escape because it needed additional justification to invade Iraq.’ The lawmaker ‘accused President Bush of purposely letting Osama bin Laden escape capture in order to justify the [...]

The US is currently lamenting that if only it had sent a sufficient enough force to Afghanistan back in 2001, it would have already captured Osama bin Laden in December of hat year. ‘The Senate Foreign Relations Committee’s report says that a robust American force could have barred bin Laden’s escape in the Afghan mountains of Tora Bora; [...]

The transcripts of the recorded interview with Guantanamo prisoner Mohammad el Gharani were shown on the English-language website of a TV network in Qatar. The interview was a result of a telephone call to Al Jazeera, an international Arabic television network, which Gharani instead called when he was given permission to phone a relative. The Al Jazeera [...]