The US let Bin Ladin escape from Tora Bora to Pakistan Why?

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The US let Bin Ladin escape from Tora Bora to Pakistan Why?

Comment: This story about Osama bin Ladin escape is interesting, because of all the lies spun by the Bush crime family after his escape. They needed the threat of terror to do the Iraq war and occupation.

You have to understand that the US had told over-head and radar surveilence of Afghan airspace, butPakistani jet or jets flew into Afghanistan and out again, transporting Al Quaeda fighters from the north west of Afghanistan to the safety of Pakistan. see below:

The CIA field commander for the agency's Jawbreaker team at Tora Bora, Gary Berntsen, says he and other U.S. commanders did know that bin Laden was among the hundreds of fleeing Qaeda and Taliban members. Berntsen says he had definitive intelligence that bin Laden was holed up at Tora Bora - intelligence operatives had tracked him - and could have been caught. "He was there," Berntsen tells NEWSWEEK.

He notes that bin Laden discussed his presence at the Tora Bora battle in a audio message released in 2003. [PeterBergen (.com), 10/28/2004] In 2005, Gary Bernsten, who was in charge of an on-the-ground CIA team trying to find bin Laden, will claim that he gave General Tommy Franks definitive evidence that bin Laden was trapped in Tora Bora (see Late October-Early December 2001). [Financial Times, 1/3/2006] In 2006, former counterterrorism "tsar" Richard Clarke will comment, "Yes, we know [bin Laden] absolutely was there.… And yes, he did escape.

http://www.cooperativeresearch.org/context.jsp?item=a112801helicopterescape

In his book - titled "Jawbreaker" - the decorated career CIA officer criticizes Donald Rumsfeld's Defense Department for not providing enough support to the CIA and the Pentagon's own Special Forces teams in the final hours of Tora Bora.

Berntsen had to ask and plead for several days for a decision on his Ranger request. When Berntsen pressed harder, he was shockingly replaced in the field and in the middle of the Tora Bora battle!

http://idahofallz.com/2006/08/26/jawbreaker-tells-why-we-missed-osama-bin-laden/

Tora Bora was a fortress of snow-capped peaks, steep valleys and fortified caves. Its miles of tunnels, bunkers and base camps, dug deeply into the steep rock walls, had been part of a C.I.A.-financed complex built for the mujahedeen.

the cave complex had been so refined that it was said to have its own ventilation system and a power system created by a series of hydroelectric generators; bin Laden is believed to have designed the latter. Tora Bora's walls and the floors of its hundreds of rooms were finished and smooth and extended some 350 yards into the granite mountain that enveloped them. Tora bora mountains rise in some places to 14,000 feet, and it is less than 20 miles from the border with Pakistan.

The last major battle of the war in Afghanistan began, hidden from view inside the caves were an estimated 1,500 to 2,000 well-trained, well-armed men.

Bin Laden's Arab fighters had used Jalalabad as a base and as a command center for a number of years, and now they dispersed, loading their weapons and their clothing, their children and their wives into the backs of several hundred lorries, armored vehicles and four-wheel-drive trucks. Some Taliban fighters followed suit. Others disappeared, removing their signature black turbans and returning to their villages and towns.

Then he entered a custom-designed white Toyota Corolla, and the convoy sped away toward the mountains of Tora Bora,

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/09/11/magazine/11TORABORA.html?pagewanted=all

Bernsten's account is corroborated by former CIA official Hank Crumpton, who personally briefed Bush and Cheney, as well as Franks, about the need to go after bin Laden in Tora Bora.

Crumpton, who headed up the CIA's Afghan campaign, was in constant contact with Franks. Just weeks before bin Laden escaped, he strongly urged the general to move marines to the cave complex in Tora Bora, complaining "the back door was open." But Franks balked.

So Crumpton turned to the commander-in-chief and tried a more direct appeal. "We're going to lose our prey if we're not careful," he told Bush. Cheney also was in the meeting, according to Ron Suskind, author of the One Percent Doctrine.

But they did nothing. In spite of the CIA's repeated advice to move against bin Laden in Tora Bora, the commander-in-chief and his top security advisers did not act. They ignored key intelligence.

Then there's Gary C. Schroen, the CIA field officer in charge of the initial CIA incursion into Afghanistan after 9/11. The author of First In: An Insider's Account of How the CIA Spearheaded the War on Terror in Afghanistan also refutes the Pentagon and the White House. Witness this 2005 exchange on NBC's Meet the Press:

http://www.cooperativeresearch.org/context.jsp?item=a112801helicopterescape

In October 2004, General Tommy Franks offered this observation: "We don't know to this day whether Mr. bin Laden was at Tora Bora in December 2001. Mr. bin Laden was never within our grasp."

Franks, an old schoolmate of Laura Bush from Midland, Texas, is a diehard Bushie. He campaigned for Bush in 2004, and was rewarded with the Medal of Freedom for his loyalty. http://www.antiwar.com/sperry/?articleid=10981

Dicky Cheney, for his part, has insisted "it was not at all certain that bin Laden was in Tora Bora." For all anyone knows, "he might have been in Kashmir."

NOTE: Now is history of everything after 9/11 should teach us, everytime Cheney goes public to the press, He is spinning some LIES.

As an investigator on asking a suspect a question and she/he tells why somebody else might have done it or gives me a reason why the event might have happened some other way, he/she is lying.

He and an estimated 90% of his forces – including almost all of al-Qaeda's senior management – survived the U.S. attack on Afghanistan, according to Michael Scheuer, the CIA officer who ran the bin Laden tracking unit at Langley.

And most of them escaped across the border to Pakistan after we neglected to "dog the escape hatches" with our own troops, Scheuer says. No effective cordon was thrown up around al-Qaeda's leaders

http://www.antiwar.com/sperry/?articleid=10981

Main source: The Terror Timeline: Year by Year, Day by Day, Minute by Minute, by Paul Thompson

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After having allowed over 4000 Taliban and Al-Qaeda supporters to be airlifted from Kunduz by the Pakistan Air Force.

http://mea.gov.in/opinion/2002/03/28o01.htm

At the request of the Pakistani government, the US secretly allows rescue flights into the besieged Taliban stronghold of Kunduz, in Northern Afghanistan, to save Pakistanis fighting for the Taliban (and against US forces) and bring them back to Pakistan. Pakistan's President "Musharraf won American support for the airlift by warning that the humiliation of losing hundreds—and perhaps thousands—of Pakistani Army men and intelligence operatives would jeopardize his political survival." [New Yorker, 1/21/2002] Dozens of senior Pakistani military officers, including two generals, are flown out. [NOW with Bill Moyers, 2/21/2003] In addition, it is reported that the Pakistani government assists 50 trucks filled with foreign fighters to escape the town. [New York Times, 11/24/2001]

The New Yorker magazine reports, "What was supposed to be a limited evacuation apparently slipped out of control and, as an unintended consequence, an unknown number of Taliban and al-Qaeda fighters managed to join in the exodus." A CIA analyst says, "Many of the people they spirited away were in the Taliban leadership" who Pakistan wanted for future political negotiations. US intelligence was "supposed to have access to them, but it didn't happen," he says. According to Indian intelligence, airlifts grow particularly intense in the last three days before the city falls on November 25. Of the 8,000 remaining al-Qaeda, Pakistani, and Taliban, about 5,000 are airlifted out and 3,000 surrender. [New Yorker, 1/21/2002] Hersh later claims that "maybe even some of bin Laden's immediate family were flown out on those evacuations." [NOW with Bill Moyers, 2/21/2003]

Background leading up to his airlife of al Quaeda out of Afghanistan:

New Yorker magazine would later note, "The initial American aim in Afghanistan had been not to eliminate the Taliban's presence there entirely but to undermine the regime and al-Qaeda while leaving intact so-called moderate Taliban [and Pashtun] elements that would play a role in a new postwar government. This would insure that Pakistan would not end up with a regime on its border dominated by the Northern Alliance." [New Yorker, 1/21/2002]

As a result of these goals, US bombers are "ordered to focus their attacks on Afghan government infrastructure targets in Kabul and elsewhere, far from the battlefields in the north, and the Taliban front lines [are] left relatively unscathed." This policy not only delays the defeat of the Taliban but also gives al-Qaeda leaders extra time to prepare their escape. However, in early November the US bombing finally begins targeting the Taliban frontlines, especially near the key northern town of Mazar-i-Sharif. The results are immediate and dramatic, allowing the Northern Alliance to conquer the capital of Kabul within days (see November 13, 2001). [Risen, 2006, pp. 169-170]

The US begins using the Shahbaz air force base and other bases in Pakistan in their attacks against Afghanistan. [London Times, 10/15/2001] However, because of public Pakistani opposition to US support, the two governments claim the US is there for purely logistical and defensive purposes. Even six months later, the US refuses to confirm it is using the base for offensive operations. [Los Angeles Times, 3/6/2002] Such bases in Pakistan become a link in a chain of US military outposts in Central Asia. Other countries also falsely maintain that such bases are not being used for military operations in Afghanistan despite clear evidence to the contrary. [Reuters, 12/28/2001]

CBS later reports that on this day, bin Laden is admitted to a military hospital in Rawalpindi, Pakistan, for kidney dialysis treatment. Pakistani military forces guard bin Laden. They also move out all the regular staff in the urology department and send in a secret team to replace them. It is not known how long he stays there. [CBS News, 1/28/2002]

http://www.cooperativeresearch.org/entity.jsp?entity=pakistan

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