“…at some point prior to December 11, 2001, Osama bin Laden and as many as eighteen hundred of his fighters slipped away in the dead of night from the Tora Bora mountains [in Afghanistan] and made their way across the border to the safety of northern Pakistan. Regardless of who is responsible, bin Laden and over a thousand of his fighters managed to escape and are still on the loose today.”
– Matthew M. Aid, The Secret Sentry, Page 227