{"id":929,"date":"2002-03-06T13:18:00","date_gmt":"2002-03-06T17:18:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles-wp\/?p=929"},"modified":"2002-03-06T13:18:00","modified_gmt":"2002-03-06T17:18:00","slug":"how-bin-laden-got-away","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/2002\/03\/06\/13\/18\/how-bin-laden-got-away\/","title":{"rendered":"How Bin Laden Got Away"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <i><a href=\"http:\/\/www.csmonitor.com\/\">Christian Science Monitor<\/a><\/i> (how did a bunch of kooks manage to create such a great paper?) has this excellent account of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.csmonitor.com\/2002\/0304\/p01s03-wosc.htm\">how Bin Laden and the other <\/a>Tal<a href=\"..\/Webstore\/Afghan%20War\/How%20bin%20Laden%20got%20away.htm\">iban leaders easily eluded the American proxies in Tora Bora<\/a> &#8212; to which foreign papers already refer to as &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/Archive\/Article\/0,4273,4367863,00.html\"><\/a>the failed Tora Bora offensive&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Apparently, the US-paid Afghans were playing both sides, or all sides, which seems like the smartest thing to do.<\/p>\n<p>The Pentagon has decided to dispense with the untrustworthy Afghan irregulars and send in the 101st and the 10th Mountain. Post-WTC, Bush the Second thinks he can spend US soldiers&#8217; lives without massive political fallout or <a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/search?q=Vietnam+Syndrome\">Vietnam Syndrome<\/a> and send them in en-masse. Maybe he&#8217;s right?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Christian Science Monitor (how did a bunch of kooks manage to create such a great paper?) has this excellent account of how Bin Laden and the other Taliban leaders easily eluded the American&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-929","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/929","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=929"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/929\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=929"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=929"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=929"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}