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TORA BORA REVISITED: HOW WE FAILED TO GET BIN LADEN AND WHY IT MATTERS TODAY
COMMITTEE ON FOREIGN RELATIONS ^ | NOVEMBER 30, 2009 | John F. Kerry, Chairman

Posted on 11/29/2009 8:55:56 AM PST by Lurkina.n.Learnin

LETTER OF TRANSMITTAL

UNITED STATES SENATE, COMMITTEE ON FOREIGN RELATIONS, Washington, DC, November 30, 2009

DEAR COLLEAGUE: This report by the Committee majority staff is part of our continuing examination of the conflict in Afghanistan. When we went to war less than a month after the attacks of September 11, the objective was to destroy Al Qaeda and kill or capture its leader, Osama bin Laden, and other senior figures in the terrorist group and the Taliban, which had hosted them. Today, more than eight years later, we find ourselves fighting an increasingly lethal insurgency in Afghanistan and neighboring Pakistan that is led by many of those same extremists. Our inability to finish the job in late 2001 has contributed to a conflict today that endangers not just our troops and those of our allies, but the stability of a volatile and vital region. This report relies on new and existing information to explore the consequences of the failure to eliminate bin Laden and other extremist leaders in the hope that we can learn from the mistakes of the past. Sincerely,

JOHN F. KERRY, Chairman

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TOPICS: History; Military/Veterans; Reference; Society
KEYWORDS: afghanistan; democrats; johnkerry; kerry; obl; wot
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To: SunkenCiv; Red_Devil 232; Ernest_at_the_Beach; Jet Jaguar; El Gato
Anybody remember the Air Force's Big Blue 82?

If you do, we'll chat over the odds of Osama bin Laden's survival at Tora Bora.

He's pushing up poppies.
41 posted on 12/01/2009 6:25:28 PM PST by BIGLOOK (Keelhaul Congress!)
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To: BIGLOOK

IMHO under Objective Ginger,,,

Killed by a Louisiana Long Rifle...(B-52)...


42 posted on 12/01/2009 6:39:06 PM PST by 1COUNTER-MORTER-68 (THROWING ANOTHER BULLET-RIDDLED TV IN THE PILE OUT BACK~~~~~)
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To: BIGLOOK

:’)


43 posted on 12/01/2009 8:21:13 PM PST by SunkenCiv (https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/__Since Jan 3, 2004__Profile updated Monday, January 12, 2009)
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To: BIGLOOK
Anybody remember the Air Force's Big Blue 82?

Sure, but to be effective it must be dropped where your target is. If the target is not there when the BLU-82 arrives , it won't be destroyed.

44 posted on 12/01/2009 10:04:32 PM PST by El Gato ("The Second Amendment is the RESET button of the United States Constitution." -- Doug McKay)
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