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The Senate Foreign Relations Committee has historically been a place for bipartisanship—a place where both parties and all members come together to advance America’s interests in the world. -Senator John Frakkin' Kerry, Chairman of U.S. Senate Committee on Foreign Relations. As with the 2006 Senate Intelligence Investigation into pre-war intel, and its 2008 phase II final report, this report, TORA BORA REVISITED: HOW WE FAILED TO GET BIN LADEN AND WHY IT MATTERS TODAY smacks of politicization, right from the opening get-go. It's nothing more than blame-handing "Bush's fault", right before President Obama is to announce his "new way forward"...

Bin Laden died from wounds suffered in Tora Bora air raid, says Arab expert By John Lichfield in Paris 10 May 2003 Osama bin Laden died after being maimed in an American air raid on the Tora Bora mountains of Afghanistan in December 2001, a French expert on the Arab world believes. Ghislaine Alleaume, a historian and Arabist at the French national research centre, the CNRS, reached her conclusion after studying television and internet messages circulated by Bin Laden's supporters. She bases her theory mostly on a video of the al- Qa'ida leader broadcast by al-Jazeera television on 27 December...

Hunt for bin Laden body returns to Tora Bora By Kim Sengupta in Bagram, Afghanistan 07 May 2002 Canadian and American forces are searching through the caves of Tora Bora to discover whether Osama bin Laden and his chief lieutenants were killed there during the fierce battle in December. Operation Torii, being conducted amid great secrecy, is searching through hundreds of caves in an effort to find evidence that could be linked to the al-Qa'ida leader's remains. Officials have refused to disclose the area where their forces have been deployed, saying only it was in an intelligence-gathering mission in the...