It was absolutely not the reason. They were sent in there to help the Americans in the south near the Tora Bora area to try to chase down bin Laden and to try to destroy the heart of the al-Qaeda operation in the spring of 2002.
September 25th, 2006 / 4:55 p.m.
Professor, Director of the Centre for Military and Strategic Studies, University of Calgary
It was absolutely not the reason. They were sent in there to help the Americans in the south near the Tora Bora area to try to chase down bin Laden and to try to destroy the heart of the al-Qaeda operation in the spring of 2002.
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