Tommy Franks

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• McChrystal says that killing Bin Laden is the key to end militancy

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 729
  Washington DC, Dec 9 (THAINDIAN NEWS) The top US commander in Afghanistan General Stanley McChrystal said that capturing Al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden is very crucial as he is a very iconic figure and he ought to be killed or captured in order to win the war against militants.“It would not defeat al-Qaeda to [...]
  2 weeks ago

• To justify Iraq war: ‘Bush intentionally let Bin Laden get away’

  
  Trends Updates — Authority: 593
  According to Rep. Maurice Hinchey, a Democratic congressman from New York, ‘the Bush administration permitted the world’s most notorious terrorist mastermind to escape because it needed additional justification to invade Iraq.’ The lawmaker ‘accused President Bush of purposely letting Osama bin Laden escape ...
  3 weeks ago

• Osama bin Laden could have been captured back in December 2001

  
  Trends Updates — Authority: 593
  The US is currently lamenting that if only it had sent a sufficient enough force to Afghanistan back in 2001, it would have already captured Osama bin Laden in December of hat year. ‘The Senate Foreign Relations Committee’s report says that a robust American force could have barred bin Laden’s escape in the ...
  3 weeks ago

• Odds and ends for 11/29

  
  Blog on the Run: Reloaded — Authority: 478
  Policy misprescription: Switzerland has voted to ban construction of minarets . No good can come of this. In terms of confusing symptom with illness, it’s sort of like a doctor voting to ban coughing. And the Swiss are going to catch it both from the civil-libertarian community and from Muslims and their friends. ...
  3 weeks ago

• Kerry’s Revenge on Afghanistan

  
  Axis of Right — Authority: 135
  John “F’in” Kerry* finally gets some revenge on the Bush Administration through a new report on how we missed our chance to get Bin Laden in December 2001 in the mountains around Tora Bora.  However, on page 9 of the 49 page file ( pdf file) Kerry notes that his report’s thesis relies on the same slew of ...
  3 weeks ago

• Senate Report: U.S. Could Have Captured bin Laden in 2001

  
  The Moderate Voice — Authority: 679
  A Senate report says the Bush administration could have captured terrorist Osama bin Laden in December 2001 — two months after 911 — but that poor judgment calls by then defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld and then-top military commander Gen. Tommy Franks let him get away. The New York Daily News gives a good ...
  3 weeks ago

• Senate Report Claims Bin Laden Was in Our Grasp in 2001

  
  Politics Daily — Authority: 785
  Filed under: Bush Administration , Dick Cheney , Afghanistan A Senate Foreign Relations Committee report issued this weekend says that al-Qaeda leader Osama Bin Laden "was within our grasp" when he was "cornered" in the forbidding mountains of Tora Bora in December, 2001 under intense U.S. bombardment.   ...
  3 weeks ago

• Senate Committee On Foreign Relations Report: Tora Bora Revisited

  
  WOK3 — Authority: 142
  The report says it as plainly as can be; That our failure to capture of kill Bin Laden in the mountains of Tora Bora has been a f**k-up of the first magnitude.  And how the strategy of both Rumsfeld and General Franks risked far too much in order to keep a “light footprint” in a region where now our presence ...
  3 weeks ago

• Senate report: Bin Laden was ‘Within Our Grasp’ in December 2001

  
  Turning Left — Authority: 141
  From the Associated Press : 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 ...
  3 weeks ago

• Report Blasts 2001 Battle To Get Bin Laden

  
  MyTownTalks — Authority: 508
  David Goodhue - AHN Reporter Washington, DC (AHN) - A new Senate report blasts the Bush administrations December 2001 effort to capture or kill al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden in the Afghanistan mountains of Tora Bora.
  3 weeks ago

• “Working the War Up Since Early 2002″ The Blair-Bush Conspiracy on Iraq

  
  War On You: Breaking Alternative News — Authority: 532
  “Working the War Up Since Early 2002″ The Blair-Bush Conspiracy on Iraq By DAVE LINDORFF CounterPunch , November 25, 2009 M ost Americans are blissfully in the dark about it, but across the Atlantic in the UK, a commission reluctantly established by Prime ...
  3 weeks ago

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