Remember Tora Bora? Well, we are back there again fighting the same folks we failed to get the first time. Ben Laden may not be there but Taliban and al Qaeda are. The US and Afghan air and ground forces are once again engaged in a battle at the hills that are filled with caves and tunnels. Tora Bora is a formidable fortress first built back when the Mujahedeen was fighting the Soviets in the 1980s. It made an ideal holdout to fight a guerilla war and still provides a difficult position to attack.
Right now a lot of the fight is by the combined air forces of Afghanistan and the US. If this sounds like déjà vu, it is. In 2001 Tora Bora was the battle where many think Bin Laden escaped US forces and fled into Pakistan.
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