U.S. military Commander Dalton Fury (pseudonym) spoke about his pursuit of Osama bin Laden in December 2001 at Tora Bora, Afghanistan. “One night–alone without his Afghan allies–Fury said he was told Bin Laden was two kilometres away. Faced with overwhelming odds, he elected to stay away. But the decision always nagged him. He wrote in his book [entitled Kill Bin Laden]: ‘My decision to abort that effort to kill or capture Bin Laden when we might have been within 2,000 metres of him, about 2,000 yards, still bothers me. It leaves me with a feeling of somehow letting down our nation at a critical time.’ But, he added, it wasn’t worth the risk.” [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