2008-10-06 US officials stopped plans to kill bin Laden

2008-10-06 David Edwards and Muriel Kane The Raw Story \War on Terror\Osama bin Laden\US military\Tora Bora http://rawstory.com/news/2008/US_officials_stopped_plans_to_kill_1006.html Delta Force officer: US officials stopped plans to kill bin Laden US officials stopped plans to kill bin Laden &ldquo;Bin Laden was known to be holed up at Tora Bora on a ridge with an elevation of 14,000 feet. The Delta Force team's initial plan was to come at him from the direction he'd least expect, climbing over the mountains at his back, but that plan wasn't approved by the higher-ups. Their second idea, to drop hundreds of landmines along the mountain passes to Pakistan to impede bin Laden's retreat and then bring in helicopters, was also turned down.&rdquo;

Delta Force's top two plans to capture Osama bin Laden not long after 9/11 were both shot down – a conspicuously rare occurrence.   