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In his review of Gary Berntsen and Ralph Pezzullo's Jawbreaker: The Attack on Bin Laden and al-Qaeda: A Personal Account by the CIA's Key Field Commander , former Secretary of the Navy and 9/11 Commission member John Lehman (Book World, Feb. 12) maintains that "for reasons that remain unclear to Berntsen (and, indeed, to this reviewer), the Bush administration or [General Tommy] Franks decided to depend . . . on local Afghan warlords rather than put U.S. forces on the ground to block bin Laden's escape [from Tora Bora, as Berntsen and others had requested]." The result? Bin Laden was able to "cross easily into Pakistan" from where he continues to taunt the United States and "inspire jihadists worldwide."
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