An Interview With An Osama Bin Laden Hunter Who Lead Delta Force

Anti-Taliban fighters observing U.S. bombing of the cave sanctuaries of the al-Qaeda terrorist organization in the Tora Bora mountains of Afghanistan on December 16, 2001. Reuters NewMedia Inc./Corbis

Going After Bin Laden -- Newsweek

A new book by the lead Delta Force member on the hunt details how the U.S. almost got Osama in 2001.

Two months after the September 11 attacks took place, a group of U.S. commandos, with the help of British commandos, the CIA and an Afghan warlord, trekked into the Tora Bora mountains in Afghanistan in search of the most wanted man in the world. Their mission was clear—capture or kill Osama bin Laden. If he died, then they were to leave his body with the Afghans but bring back proof that he had been slain. But the Battle of Tora Bora—as the showdown between allied forces and bin Laden would come to be known—did not end with bin Laden's death, but with his escape. Seven years later, the senior ranking American military officer and lead Delta Force member of that mission has published "Kill Bin Laden," his account of what occurred. NEWSWEEK's Jessica Ramirez spoke to Dalton Fury—a pseudonym the author uses—about the man that got away. Excerpts:

Read more ....