I take both
how about that eh?
Suits me.
Do tell that to
@SMC.
same can apply on NATo , ANA forces that allowed both the OBL and Afghan Taliban high command to flee Tora Bora siege by deliberately leaving one area uncovered,.
the story would have ended right in 2001, 2002.. BUT no.. it wasn't to be
Yes, it was very unfortunate that OBL was able to escape Tora Bora, during a pitched battle. But do you think that having an HVT escape during battle implies the same incompetence as not knowing that the world's most wanted person is living in their own soil, and even worse, their own cantonment?
BTW, I'm not sure how you can use the word "deliberately" there, if you are implying that they deliberately let OBL slip through.
^^ In 9/11 case the terrorists were living in the US for a long time..
And you mention that Americans had detailed intel, but that was after 10 years of trying to find him... so that makes little difference.
Look, if this is simply an effort on your part to salvage some pride, facts be damned, tell me so, and I won't respond. OTOH, if you really need to be walked through this, I can do that as well.
They were not terrorists while they were living there - they had not yet committed any act of terrorism. And they were definitely not the world's most wanted men, like OBL was. 9/11 was something that had never happened before, and to give credit to the Amricans, has never happened since.
And yes, it took them ten years to find OBL living in a military cantonment in Paksitan. But the super duper ISI could not find him in those ten years, although he was living right under their noses, unlike the Americans who were operating half a planet away.