Someone is lying... the Senate report and all the generals screaming at the time... or Rummy, who needed to keep a boogeyman alive to get the war in Iraq he wanted.... 3 guesses?
Rumsfeld denies he let bin Laden escape
Source: PITTSBURGH TRIBUNE-REVIEW
WASHINGTON — Former Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld defended his controversial tenure under President George W. Bush, pushing back against criticism that he used too few troops to invade Iraq, and that he let Osama bin Laden escape into Pakistan.
Rumsfeld, 78, said in an interview with the Tribune-Review that he never received a request to send troops to a mountain complex where bin Laden was believed to be hiding early in the war. A Senate report saying otherwise is "factually not correct," he said.
In December 2001, Afghan fighters and special forces operatives approached the complex of caves at Tora Bora, a mountainous area on the Afghanistan-Pakistan border where bin Laden was thought to have fled. As U.S. bombers pounded the cave complex, a weary bin Laden wrote his last will and testament, expecting to die in the high-altitude caves, according to a Senate Foreign Relations Committee report released in November 2009.
