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October 01, 2005
Publication date for Jawbreaker postponed
According to Amazon.com, the publication date for Jawbreaker by Gary Berntsen is postponed from it's original date, October 18th, to December 27th. In other words, you won't even be able to get it by Christmas. If the CIA wanted to hurt Berntsen's sales by holding up publication, it looks like they have succeeded. On the other hand, even though the book is not available yet, it has already sold more copies than the only other first hand account of the events at Tora Bora, Al Qaeda's Great Escape by Philip Smucker. They're ranked #106,633 and #154,391 respectively.
America's Secret War by George Friedman has a few pages summarizing what really happened at Tora Bora, probably from his sources in the CIA and the military. Here's the short version. Everyone knew Bin Laden was probably in the Jalalabad area by November 1st. By November 15, the CIA was confident Bin Laden was at Tora Bora. CENTCOM would not agree to bring in the 10th Mountain division to seal off the border, even though the CIA specifically asked them to do it and warned them the local Afghan militias could not be trusted. By December 15th, the Afghan militias had let all but a few Al Qaeda stragglers escape into Pakistan and the best chance we had to capture Bin Laden vanished into thin air.
Posted by Mike at October 1, 2005 09:27 PM
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