Tora Bora revisited [electronic resource] : how we failed to get Bin Laden and why it matters today : a report to members of the Committee on Foreign Relations, United States Senate, ... One Hundred Eleventh Congress, first session, November 30th, 2009.

Washington, DC : U.S. G.P.O., 2009.

English

v, 43 p. : col. ill., col. maps (digital, PDF file)

United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Foreign Relations.

This report by the Committee majority staff is part of our continuing examination of the conflict in Afghanistan. When we went to war less than a month after the attacks of September 11, the objective was to destroy Al Qaeda and kill or capture its leader, Osama bin Laden, and other senior figures in the terrorist group and the Taliban, which had hosted them. Today, more than eight years later, we find ourselves fighting an increasingly lethal insurgency in Afghanistan and neighboring Pakistan that is led by many of those same extremists. Our inability to finish the job in late 2001 has contributed to a conflict today that endangers not just our troops and those of our allies, but the stability of a volatile and vital region. This report relies on new and existing information to explore the consequences of the failure to eliminate bin Laden and other extremist leaders in the hope that we can learn from the mistakes of the past.

November 30, 2009.
At head of title: Committee print.
Title from cover screen (viewed on Nov. 30, 2009).

Includes bibliographical references: p. 21-23.

Mode of access: World Wide Web.
System requirements: Adobe Reader.

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