If the United States was so interested in capturing Bin Laden, why didn't they actually try to capture him when they had a chance? Gross incompetence? Or maybe they didn't really care about Bin Laden or Afghanistan and they were just trying to jump into Iraq. It's a lot easier to sell a war against Saddam Hussein and "his ties to terrorism" if the evil Bin Laden is still running around scaring people.
Just so nobody gets confused, I don't think 9/11 was an inside job.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009...-senate-report
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Donald Rumsfeld had the chance when he was US defence secretary in December 2001 to make sure Osama bin Laden was killed or captured, but let him slip through his hands, a Senate report has found.
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But the report contains a mass of evidence that points towards the near certainty that Bin Laden was in the Tora Bora district of the White Mountains in eastern Afghanistan, along with up to 1,500 of his most loyal al-Qaida fighters and bodyguards, in late November 2001, shortly before the fall of Kabul.
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