The Battle of Tora Bora and the Escape of Osama Bin Laden

Osama Ben Laden's escape

Almost twenty years ago, at the end of 2001, the attention of the world's media was focused on what was the largest operation to capture or eliminate a single individual. Osama Bin Laden, accompanied by hundreds of followers who were part of the terrorist organization Al Qaeda, along with members of the Afghan Taliban government, were fleeing harassment from the most capable military forces on the planet. Surrounded by a corner of Afghanistan very close to the border with Pakistan and known as Tora Bora, monitored by a constellation of satellites and bombed by the most powerful aerial means, despite having everything against them, they managed to escape and take refuge in the neighboring country. where he was lost track of for years.

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