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29/11/2009 22:32:52

Senate: Bush Administration helped bin Laden to flee

The US Senate foreign relations committee's report has found that the former George Bush's Administration had the chance in 2001 to make sure Osama bin Laden was killed or captured in the Tora Bora district of the White Mountains in eastern Afghanistan,but thenUS Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld had refused to send reinforcements and let him flee into Pakistan.

 
The report of the foreign relations committee's democratic members chaired by Senator John Kerry says that sufficient special forces troops were in the area to go after bin Laden and cut off his exit route into Pakistan. CIA paramilitary leaders called for permission to launch an operation but were turned down by the Pentagon on grounds that it could upset US allies in Afghanistan.
 
The report blames Rumsfeld and his top commander, General Tommy Franks, for the decision, saying they were wedded to a new, light and risk-averse form of combat.
 
Moreover, it  contains a mass of evidence that points towards the near certainty that US had a chance to catch bin Laden who they then missed.
 
The 50-page report is published while the US President Barak Obama is preparing next Tuesday to announce a decision for sending extra forces to Afghanistan.

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