“Not until November 25 [2001], seven weeks after starting the operation, did the United States insert a ground force unit (Marines) to take and hold a former al Qaeda and Taliban facility near Kandahar [Afghanistan]. The Taliban kept control of the city, however, until December 7. The late-November operation did not include any effort by U.S. forces to seal the border with Pakistan, snatch the al Qaeda leadership, or cut off the al Qaeda escape.”
– Richard Clarke, Against All Enemies, Page 275