The Scotsman : : Government Document Confirms Bin Laden Evaded Capture
Not that catching the administration in a lie is news any longer, but someone had to mention it..
The issue was a source of contention during last year’s presidential election and both Mr Bush and Mr Cheney referred to a column written by the former commander of US forces in Afghanistan, who said bin Laden “was never within our grasp” as evidence of their claims.
General Tommy Franks wrote in the New York Times: “We don’t know to this day whether Mr bin Laden was at Tora Bora in December 2001.”
The issue was a source of contention during last year’s presidential election and both Mr Bush and Mr Cheney referred to a column written by the former commander of US forces in Afghanistan, who said bin Laden “was never within our grasp” as evidence of their claims.
General Tommy Franks wrote in the New York Times: “We don’t know to this day whether Mr bin Laden was at Tora Bora in December 2001.”
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Government Document Confirms Bin Laden Evaded Capture
By Victoria Ward, PA in New York
A suspected al Qaida operative who allegedly helped Osama bin Laden evade capture in Afghanistan is being held by the US, it emerged today.
A US government document confirms for the first time that the al Qaida leader was camped out at the Tora Bora mountain hideout before managing to escape.
Both President George Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney have repeatedly claimed that they did not know whether bin Laden was at Tora Bora when it was attacked by US forces in December 2001.
The document, obtained by the Associated Press under freedom of information legislation, says the unidentified terrorism suspect “assisted in the escape of Osama bin Laden from Tora Bora”.
It describes the detainee as being associated with al Qaida, having bodyguards and calling for a jihad against the US.
The document was presented as evidence against the detainee at a hearing to determine whether he was being correctly held as an enemy combatant at the US naval base detention centre in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.
The issue was a source of contention during last year’s presidential election and both Mr Bush and Mr Cheney referred to a column written by the former commander of US forces in Afghanistan, who said bin Laden “was never within our grasp” as evidence of their claims.
General Tommy Franks wrote in the New York Times: “We don’t know to this day whether Mr bin Laden was at Tora Bora in December 2001.”
The al Qaida leader has never been captured and is believed to be hiding near the Afghan-Pakistan border.
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