U.S. military Commander Dalton Fury (pseudonym) spoke about his pursuit of Osama bin Laden in December 2001 at Tora Bora, Afghanistan. “At one point, he said, his forces were closing in on Bin Laden’s men–but he decided to abort the mission because he did not have support from Afghan troops. And in another incident Delta [Force] soldiers actually saw a tall man dressed in camouflage that they believed was Bin Laden–only to have the Al Qaeda leader escape their bombing campaign in the mountains. …’Our job was to go find him, capture or kill him, and we knew the writing on the wall was to kill him because nobody wanted to bring Osama bin Laden back to stand trial in the United States somewhere,’ the mission commander told his interviewer. He said the [Bush] administration’s strategy was to let Afghans do most of the fighting, however. Using radio intercepts and other intelligence, he said, the CIA pinpointed Bin Laden’s location in the Tora Bora mountains near Pakistan.” [The 15th of the month used for date sorting purposes only.]
– David Gardner, “Shot in the Left Eye After he Refused to Surrender: Dramatic Reconstruction of How U.S. Hit Squad Took Out Bin Laden,” Daily Mail, May 2, 2011