In a shocking new revelation, a former CIA official has said that Osama bin Laden, the architect of the 9/11 terror strikes, had escaped Afghanistan by posing as a woman to escape from US troops in Afghanistan's Tora Bora mountains.

John Kiriakou, a former 15-year CIA veteran and head of counterterrorism operations in Pakistan, explained the reported escape and a serious intelligence failure in an exclusive interview with news agency ANI.

Infiltrator Translator Foiled Tora Bora Capture

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Kiriakou said US troops felt they had bin Laden and al-Qaeda command trapped at Tora Bora following the 9/11 attacks. But their position was undermined by an internal leak.

"We didn't know that the translator for the commander of Central Command was really an Al Qaeda

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