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Why did Osama bin Laden escape? Former Delta Force officer tells CBS' "60 Minutes"

Orlando Sentinel - 4th Oct 2008

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Osama bin Laden: Why did Osama bin Laden elude U.S. officers sent to kill him in Afghanistan? The former Delta Force officer who led the mission in the Tora Bora Mountains cites two reasons: Higher-ups stopped the most effective plan, and Afghan allies undermined the effort. The retired Army major, identified by the pseudonym Dalton Fury, talks to Scott Pelley on Sunday's "60 Minutes." The program airs at 7 p.m. on WKMG-Channel 6. A plan to get bin Laden by climbing in from the back door of Pakistan was scuttled. "Whether that was central command [or] all the way up to the president of the United States, I'm not sure," Fury says. He questions how committed Afghan fighters were to catching the al-Qaida leader. "These guys, i

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