Why did it take 10 years to capture and kill Osama bin Laden?

It's been four years since a group of US Navy Seals assassinated Osama bin Laden in a night raid on a high-walled ... read more

If you’re interested, I recommend the movie Zero Dark Thirty and the book: No Easy Day: The Firsthand Account of the Mission that Killed Osama bin Laden by Mark Owens. read more

But each time bin Laden was within reach, some excuse was offered as to why nothing was done. And after 9/11, the pattern persisted. U.S. forces had bin Laden cornered in the mountains of Tora Bora after the United States and NATO invaded Afghanistan in late 2001. It would have been a relatively simple matter to capture the trapped terrorist. read more