Report highlights shortcomings in Afghanistan

The World

The war in Afghanistan might be going better were it not for a missed opportunity in December, 2001. A new report by the Senate Foreign Relations Committee revisits a crucial moment in the war � when Osama bin Laden escaped from Tora Bora. We speak with Douglas Frantz, the chief investigator for the Committee’s Democratic staff who prepared the study.

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