Coll is a friggin’ phony. He always pounds on Tora Bora and Bin Laden escaping because the “specially trained 10th Mountain Division, which was ideally suited for the mission” wasn’t sent in to hunt him down.”
Total bullcrap. The 10th Mountain Division is an excellent infantry division, but it has NO special mountain warfare capability and is only referred to as the 10th Mtn to pay tribute to its WW2 legacy. There isn’t even a high hill at Fort Drum where it is based.
That is pure laziness and ignorance for a reporter to get that wrong.
What else is lazy about Coll is the fact that, if you really drill down and do the research, Bin Laden has provided absolutely no proof of life in years. Meanwhile Zawahiri has done so dozens of times, as have other AQ personalities.
The FACTS are that, not only is there nothing truly to suggest that Bin Laden is reading books about US foreign policy, there is NOTHING to suggest that he is alive.
You are correct. Now the guardsmen at the mountain school here in VT now a little something about mountain fighting.
There isn’t even a high hill at Fort Drum where it is based. ......... ? Spragesville?