“Donald Rumsfeld could have given the order to kill or capture Osama bin Laden, but he let him escape to Pakistan because he was afraid of angering U.S. allies in Afghanistan. This shocking report was published Sunday in the New York Times and several other outlets and is culled from information revealed in a detailed analysis released by the Senate Foreign Relations Committee of the crucial days in December 2001 when bin Laden and and his top lieutenant, Ayman al-Zawahiri, were pinned down in caves high up in the White Mountains in eastern Afghanistan.”
Full column by Joe Wolverton II in The New American @ http://www.thenewamerican.com/index.php/world-mainmenu-26/asia-mainmenu-33/2427-donald-rumsfeld-let-bin-laden-escape-into-pakistan