“Muhammad Musa, a laconic, massively built commander…led six hundred Afghan soldiers on the Tora Bora front lines [in Afghanistan in December 2001]. …Musa said he was not impressed by the American forces on the ground. ‘They were not involved in the fighting,’ he said. ‘There were six American soldiers with us, U.S. Special Forces. They coordinated the airstrikes. My personal view is if they had blocked the way out to Pakistan, al-Qaeda would not have had a way to escape. The Americans were my guests here, but they didn’t know about fighting.’ “ [The 15th of the month used for date sorting purposes only.]
– Peter Bergen, The Longest War, Page 72