CNN terrorism analyst Paul Cruickshank interviewed former British army officer Peter Jouvenal on August 23, 2005. Jouvenal discussed the battle of Tora Bora, Afghanistan, which occurred in December 2001. ” ‘America’s special forces are very good generally, but the mistake they made [at Tora Bora] was they relied on Afghans for information. And so it was pretty easy for Osama to slip out. It’s no criticism of the special forces. I think there weren’t enough of them on the ground.’ ” [The 15th of the month used for date sorting purposes only.]
– Peter Bergen, The Osama bin Laden I Know, Page 331