[PapaNew]

I know this is the Daily Beast but much of this is confirmed elsewhere including here

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1382011/Bin-Ladens-great-escape-How-worlds-wanted-man-fools-elite-troops-whod-trapped-mountain-lair.html

Bush had a good initial swing at the ball after 9-11 by mounted a devastating attack.

But then he took his eye off the ball and his potential homer turned into an out. Lots of collateral damage, but Bin Laden and all of Al Quaeda who were within reach, were allowed to escape.

[pepsionice]

One might say that the Homeland Security crowd needed a living Bin Laden to emerge out of Afghanistan. If he died there....none of the massive apparatus would exist today.

[yarddog]

The whole story could have been told in a paragraph. Instead I read the whole thing.

Bin Laden escaped because Bush didn’t block off the border. I guess that is the complete story.

[skinkinthegrass]

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[spetznaz]

“Kill Bin Laden” by Dalton Fury presents a very clear picture of how a series of bad government decisions led to Bin Laden escaping to Pakistan. Dalton Fury was a Delta Force commander who led a team of Delta, British SBS and American Army Special Forces to capture and/or kill Bin Laden, but decisions from government actors hindered their plan.

[dennisw]

Great link...thanks... reading it now

[Migraine]

So, were the stories I was reading shortly after we lost bin laden false? I read in three or four places that we lost him because we cornered him, then turned the operation over to the Northern Alliance 1) because we trusted them, 2) they knew the terrain, and 3) it would let him be eliminated without our fingerprints being on it (based on fears that his death would anger the muslim world).
The stories’ upshot was that the Northern Alliance, being muslim themselves, were unwilling to carry it out, but just went through the motions.
Am I the only one who read these stories?

[advertising guy]

Story is BS

[PIF]

“After spending a couple seconds too long on his radio...”

And then Senator (D) “Leaky” Leahy earned his nickname by announcing in public that we were locating these guys by tracking their satellite phones ...

[Cronos]

After knocking out the Taliban in Afghanistan, Bush should have gone into Pakistan, eliminated the Taliban, Bin Laden and Al Qaeda there and then destroyed Pakistan's "Islamic nuclear bombs" and dismembered Pakistan -- giving the north west frontier province back to Afghanistan (the Pathans are artificially divided by the British colonial era Durand line), given the socialist Baluchistan province to Iran (the Baluchis are also a divided people -- they are an Irani people-- with half living in Baluchistan province and the other half in Iran's Sistan-e-Baloch state) and then cut apart Sindh and Pakistani Punjab

He should have then let Saddam off the hook with the condition that Saddam fight off both the Ayatollahs in Iran and Al Qaeda sunni jihadis (both of whom hated Saddam in any case)

[Brother Cracker]

[1010RD]

Typical. We would have lost WW2 if our politicians had their way.