“By December 19 [2001], even the most optimistic ‘true believers’ at the Pentagon and at CENTCOM [Central Command] headquarters in Tampa, Florida, knew that the Tora Bora operation [in Afghanistan] had been an abysmal failure. Captain Robert Harward, a veteran Navy SEAL and the commander of the elite twenty-three-hundred-man U.S.-coalition Special Forces unit Task Force K-Bar, was quoted [in the February 25, 2002 U.S. News & World Report] as saying after Tora Bora, ‘All of this had got us nothing. No weapons, no ammunition, nothing.’ ”
– Matthew M. Aid, The Secret Sentry, Page 227