“By early December [2001] [CIA officer Hank] Crumpton was ‘one hundred percent’ certain that bin Laden was bottled up in the Tora Bora mountains [in Afghanistan], so he called [Central Command leader] General Tommy Franks, who had overall control of the Tora Bora operation, to request additional soldiers. Crumpton recalls that Franks pushed back because of two issues: the small American ‘footprint’ approach had already worked so well at overthrowing the Taliban, and the time it would take to get more U.S. soldiers on the ground into Tora Bora.” [The 5th of the month used for date sorting purposes only.]
– Peter Bergen, The Longest War, Page 73