U.S. Concludes Bin Laden Escaped at Tora Bora Fight

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U.S. Concludes Bin Laden Escaped at Tora Bora Fight

Failure to Send Troops in Pursuit Termed Major Error

Washington Post Staff Writers

Wednesday, April 17, 2002; Page A01

By Barton Gellman and Thomas E. Ricks

The Bush administration has

concluded that Osama bin Laden

was present during the battle for

Tora Bora late last year and that

failure to commit U.S. ground

troops to hunt him was its gravest

error in the war against al Qaeda,

according to civilian and military

officials with first-hand

knowledge.

Intelligence officials have

assembled what they believe to be

decisive evidence, from

contemporary and subsequent

interrogations and intercepted

communications, that bin Laden

began the battle of Tora Bora

inside the cave complex along

Afghanistan's mountainous

eastern border. Though there

remains a remote chance that he

died there, the intelligence

community is persuaded that bin

Laden slipped away in the first 10

days of December.

After-action reviews, conducted

privately inside and outside the

military chain of command,

describe the episode as a

significant defeat for the United

States. A common view among

those interviewed outside the U.S.

Central Command is that Army

Gen. Tommy R. Franks, the war's

operational commander,

misjudged the interests of putative

Afghan allies and let pass the best

chance to capture or kill al

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