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On December 10, 2001, the CIA pinpointed Osam Bin Laden using his radio to 10 meters.

So that afternoon, the United States knew exactly where Osam Bin Laden was.

The 40 Army Special Operations Commandos were about three miles away.

They're at the base of the mountain and they drove immediately up to go get it.

I'm Renika Singh and this is the law fair podcast January 26, 2014.

Earlier this week, the Brookings Intelligence Project was an important service officer

Yineem Farzalay to discuss his new book 102 Days of War.

How Osam Bin Laden, Al Qaeda and the Taliban survived 2001.

In the aftermath of 9-11, US forces had located Osam Bin Laden and his motley crew

in the mountains of Torah Borah. We have become very familiar with some of the men

that were there with him, like I'm on al-Zawihiri, Said Faladel and Abu Zubayda,

who would go on to become the next generation of al-Qaeda leaders and lieutenants.

The account of how these men escaped into Pakistan is not one that most people are familiar

with and Farzalay tells us the story of how the United States entered the war in Afghanistan.

He distills the decisions that were made at the highest levels of the government and the military

and the failure of US tactics and policy, which ultimately led to the failure to close

the news on these men.

As we prepare to wind down the war in Afghanistan this year, the intelligence project will be

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