WASHINGTON (AP) - Osama
bin Laden was unquestionably within reach of U.S. troops in the
mountains of Tora Bora when American military leaders made the crucial
and costly decision not to pursue the terrorist leader with massive
force, a Senate report says.The report asserts that the failure to
kill or capture bin Laden at his most vulnerable in December 2001 has
had lasting consequences beyond the fate of one man. Bin Laden’s escape
laid the foundation for today’s reinvigorated Afghan insurgency and
inflamed the internal strife now endangering Pakistan, it says.
Staff members for the Senate Foreign Relations Committee’s Democratic
majority prepared the report at the request of the chairman, Sen. John
Kerry, as President Barack Obama prepares to boost U.S. troops in
Afghanistan.
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