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From Tora Bora to Abbottabad: The strange history of Bin Laden’s ‘Wander Years’

From Tora Bora to Abbottabad: The strange history of Bin Laden’s ‘Wander Years’

Title: The Exile; Author: Cathy Scott-Clark & Adrian Levy; Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing; Pages: 640; Price: Rs 699 Between fleeing his Tora Bora mountain stronghold in 2001 till the US finally settled scores with him in 2011, Osama Bin Laden's whereabouts were a deep mystery. But in his -- and his top aides -- disappearance, there was far more going on than we know. Remember what else happened in the Indian subcontinent in December 2011 that may have facilitated his escape from Afghanistan? And then it is not only Pakistan's complicity or negligence that is the story, nor the US' short-sighted…
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