Tora Bora Revisited

I am sure everyone has heard the story of Tora Bora in December 2001 where we came close to killing bin Laden. The conventional story has been that US led Afghan forces cornered him and we bombed the whole area back into the stone age. It was a huge victory but we were never able to determine whether or not we had gotten our man.

Now along comes Dalton Fury.

Shortly after 9/11, the Pentagon ordered a top secret team of American commandos into Afghanistan with a single, simple order: kill Osama bin Laden. It was America’s best chance to eliminate the leader of al Qaeda. The inside story of exactly what happened in that mission, and how close it came to its objective has never been told until now.

The reason for his story?

Why would the mission commander break his silence after seven years? He told 60 Minutes correspondent Scott Pelley that most everything he has read in the media about his mission is wrong and now he wants to set the record straight.

I think it is great to get this story out there, although I kind of question the timing. Yet another book to add to the slowly growing list of Delta exploits (not too many books about Delta out there; this, this, and this). He sounded sincere, and I hope his version of events is true from his end.

Check out his website. Buy the book (yet another one to add to the list; I am certainly looking forward to reading it). The proceeds are going to Special Operations Warrior Foundation.