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How Bin Laden Escaped in 2001—The lessons of Tora Bora

Tora Bora

In 2001, a small U.S. special operations force had won extraordinary victories in Afghanistan and closed in on Bin Laden before high-level blunders allowed him to escape into Pakistan.

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