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CIA Commander: Pentagon Blew Chance to Catch Bin Laden

HeadlineAug 08, 2005

A former CIA commander is accusing the Pentagon of allowing Osama Bin Laden to escape from Tora Bora in Afghanistan in the fall of 2001 by not giving the CIA enough military support. The commander–Gary Berntsen–says he had definitive intelligence that the leader of Al Qaeda was holed up at Tora Bora and that he could have been caught. This according to a report in Newsweek. Berntsen is attempting to publish a book about the matter. He has accused the CIA of holding up the book’s publication.

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