AGENCY FEARS THE REAL STORY OF OSAMA'S "ESCAPE"
(He probably paid the same war-lords to look the other way that we paid to capture him. Dah. Who knew the corrupt were corruptable?):

Ex-CIA agent sues to publish Tora Bora account
Officer who helped lead mission says CIA is blocking publication of his book

The Associated Press
Updated: 3:40 a.m. ET July 28, 2005

WASHINGTON - The CIA is squelching publication of a new book detailing events leading up to Osama bin Laden’s escape from his Tora Bora mountain stronghold during the U.S.-led invasion of Afghanistan, says a former CIA officer who led much of the fighting.

In a story he says he resigned from the agency to tell, Gary Berntsen recounts the attacks he coordinated at the peak of the fighting in eastern Afghanistan in late 2001, including how U.S. commanders knew bin Laden was in the rugged mountains near the Pakistani border and the al-Qaida leader’s much-discussed getaway....

...CIA officer: 'Completely incorrect' debate
During the 2004 election, President Bush and other senior administration officials repeatedly said that commanders did not know whether bin Laden was at Tora Bora when U.S. and allied Afghan forces attacked there in 2001.

They rejected allegations by Sen. John Kerry, then the Democratic presidential nominee, that the United States had missed an opportunity to capture or kill bin Laden because they had “outsourced” the fighting to Afghan warlords... http://tinyurl.com/7vbhx
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