Battle of Tora Bora - Wikipedia
WEBTora Bora (Pashto: تورا بورا; Black Cave) is located in the Spīn Ghar mountain range near the Khyber Pass. The U.S. stated that al-Qaeda had its headquarters there and that it was bin Laden's location at the time. Background.
Bin Laden's Tora Bora escape, just months after 9/11
WEBJul 21, 2011 · Only a few months after 9/11, American troops located Osama Bin Laden in the Tora Bora mountains of Afghanistan - so how was he able to evade them?
Osama bin Laden’s Afghan hideout: Rare look in photos | CNN
WEBMar 11, 2015 · Atwan met bin Laden in his cave. It was small, 13 by 20 feet in Atwan’s estimation, and as the new photos show, it was lined with shelves of books about the Koran and the Prophet Mohammed.
Tora Bora - Wikipedia
WEBIt was the location of the December 2001 Battle of Tora Bora, and suspected hideout of Al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden which led his escape into neighboring Pakistan in January 2002. bin Laden and his family moved to a new compound in the village of Chak Shah Muhammad, a wealthy suburb of Bilal Town near Abbottabad on 6 January 2006. [6]
Battle of Tora Bora | US-Led Coalition, Al-Qaeda & Afghanistan …
WEBAfter the U.S.-led intervention, Taliban resistance quickly crumbled. Bin Laden led several hundred of his followers to a network of fortified caves in the mountains of the Tora Bora region outside Jalalabad, where he was determined to make a stand.
Lost at Tora Bora - The New York Times
WEBSep 11, 2005 · But inside the cave complex, where bin Laden had sought his final refuge from the American war in Afghanistan -- a war in which Washington, that October, had struck back for the Sept. 11...
The Manhunt: A Trip Inside bin Laden's Caves - TIME
WEBDec 24, 2001 · Bin Laden, his wives and and 13 children first moved to this part of Afghanistan in 1996, after being thrown out of Sudan. The network of man-made caves, which the Russians had found...
Inside the Tora Bora Caves | TIME
WEBDec 11, 2001 · Osama bin Laden is still on the loose, although he is running out of Afghan aeyries in which to hide. The two-day attack and relentless bombing destroyed what was probably the last of his Al...
TORA BORA REVISITED: HOW WE FAILED TO GET BIN LADEN …
WEBThe Commission's voluminous report said its investigators ``found no indication of any further discussion before September 11 among the President and his top advisers of the possibility of a threat of an Al Qaeda attack in the United States.'' Bin Laden's movements in the days surrounding September 11 remain sketchy.
Battle for Tora Bora: How Osama Bin Laden Slipped From Our …
WEBDec 30, 2009 · Presented with an opportunity to kill or capture Al Qaeda’s top leadership just three months after September 11, the United States was instead outmaneuvered by bin Laden, who slipped into...
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