The Battle of Tora Bora, involving U. S., British and Northern Alliance forces took place in December 2001 to further destroy the Taliban and suspected al-Qaeda in Afghanistan.

Tora Bora (, ), known locally as Spīn Ghar (, ), is a cave complex situated in the White Mountains ( Safed Koh ) ( Safed Koh is the Dari form for Spin Ghar ) of eastern Afghanistan, in the Pachir Wa Agam District of Nangarhar province, approximately west of the Khyber Pass and north of the border of the Federally Administered Tribal Areas ( FATA ) in Pakistan.

Tora Bora was known to be an important area for the Taliban and insurgency against the Soviet Union in the 1980s.

Tora Bora and the surrounding White Mountain range had natural caverns formed by streams eating into the limestone.

Tora Bora is in the upper right quadrant.

Tora Bora.

As the suspected hide-out of Al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden, it was the location of the December 2001 Battle of Tora Bora.

Tora Bora was variously described by the western media to be an ' impregnable cave fortress ' housing 2000 men complete with a hospital, a hydroelectric power plant, offices, a hotel, arms and ammunition stores, roads large enough to drive a tank into, and elaborate tunnel and ventilation systems.

When Tora Bora was eventually captured by the U. S. and Afghan troops, no traces of the supposed ' fortress ' were found despite painstaking searches in the surrounding areas.

It was also reported that in 2007, U. S. intelligence suspected that Osama bin Laden planned to meet with top Al Qaeda and Taliban commanders at Tora Bora prior to the launch of a possible attack in Europe or even the United States.

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This operation was the first large-scale battle in the United States War in Afghanistan since the Battle of Tora Bora in December 2001.

The expectation was that fighters, as in the case of Tora Bora several months earlier, would flee in the face of an assault and that blocker groups would simply be able to round them up.

During the campaign in Tora Bora in particular, the United States believed that " vast underground complexes ," deeply buried, were protecting opposing forces.

In November 2001 the SBS had an extensive role in the invasion of Afghanistan and were involved in the Battle of Tora Bora.

Gardēz is located at 2, 300m above sea-level, being the third highest capital of an Afghan province, and is not far from the Tora Bora region of caves and tunnels.

It recounts the battle of Tora Bora and urges Muslims to fight the United States and to overthrow the Iraq government of Saddam Hussein.

The first US team to enter the Tora Bora mountain range

When Mohammed returned to Afghanistan, he turned to Atef to set up a meeting with Bin Laden in Tora Bora, at which he told the pair his plans for military attacks against the United States.

During the Final Crisis, Tora is one of the first metahumans infected by the Anti-Life Equation and turned into a new Justifier.

According to other press reports, SAD were ineffectual and " Bin Laden and bodyguards walked unmolested out of Tora Bora and disappeared into Pakistan's unregulated tribal area.

Almost all of the principal actors from " Otoko wa Tsurai yo " have cameos in the " Niji " film, and the Tora-san character even makes a surprise cameo appearance near the end of the movie hinting that perhaps Tora is still out there somewhere.

In August 2005, Tora spoke out to defend his role in the Taukei Movement of 2000.

He quoted Tora as requesting that " any punishment meted out by the court be directed towards me and me only and not to any other of my co-accused.

In 2005, Tora came out strongly in favour of the government's controversial Reconciliation, Tolerance, and Unity Bill, which aims to establish a commission empowered to compensate victims and pardon perpetrators of the 2000 coup, and has harshly attacked its detractors.

According to both Berntsen's account and the Senate Committee's report, " Bin Laden and bodyguards walked unmolested out of Tora Bora and disappeared into Pakistan's unregulated tribal area.

Old Tora is disenchanted and turns out to be Pastoria.

Born and raised in Limassol, Cyprus, Christoforou's debut EP Tora Pou Milas ( 1995 ) and album O, ti M ' afora ( 1996 ) were commercial successes in his native country, the latter becoming the first domestic release by a Cypriot artist to be certified triple platinum.

He said that Tora and others like him were lying to the people and had to be stopped.

Tora's lawyer, Iqbal Khan, said that Tora had been leading a peaceful protest to call for the paramount chief of his district, Ratu Josefa Iloilo, to be appointed President.

" He appealed, however, for leniency to be shown to Tora on account of his old age.

On 29 September, Prisons Commissioner Aisea Taoka said that owing to his age and the state of his health, Tora would not be made to do any work at Natabua Prison, where he was being held.

Chaudhry, one of Tora's fiercest adversaries, said he accepted that Tora was in poor health and should be released on compassionate grounds.

* During the war in Afghanistan in 2001, British special forces nicknamed the Tora Bora caves, where Osama bin Laden was thought to have been hiding, " Tora Bora Tomkinson ".

Japanese Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto is portrayed at the very end of the 1970 film Tora!

Tora !, who later waves his arms at the Pearl Harbor carnage, exclaiming to a shocked Captain John B. Earle ( Richard Anderson ) " Sir, THERE ' S your confirmation!

The " Chand Tora " is a metal symbol consisting of a crescent sword and a double edged sword, held in place at the front of the turban by a woven chainmail cord tied in a pattern within the turban to protect the head from slashing weapons.

Mehdi Ghezali was captured by local warlords in Pakistan in the Tora Bora mountains which are close to the border between Afghanistan and Pakistan, and then handed over to the U. S. Armed Forces which transported him to Guantanamo Bay Naval Base on Cuba where Ghezali was held at Guantanamo Bay detainment camp.

Delta Force and British Special Boat Service commandos at Tora Bora

He said he had indeed attended a meeting at the Fijian Holdings boardroom, where Military Commander Commodore Frank Bainimarama said a group of six politicians, including nationalist Senator Apisai Tora, had asked him to remove the President, but denied that the topic had ever been raised.

Among his other film credits are: Summertime ( 1955 ) with Katharine Hepburn ; Tension at Table Rock ( 1956 ); The Harder They Fall ( 1956 ) with Humphrey Bogart ; Tea and Sympathy ( 1956 ); Three Brave Men ( 1957 ); The Young Doctors ( 1961 ); Youngblood Hawke ( 1964 ); Good Neighbor Sam ( 1964 ); The Glass Bottom Boat ( 1966 ); " The Trouble with Girls with Elvis Presley ( 1969 )" Tora!

Captured in the Battle of Tora Bora, Qahtani was sent to the United States Navy base at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.

Constantinos began his career at high school releasing his first EP " Tora Pou Milas " featuring his first 2 hit singles and a cover of Cyprus ' entry to the Eurovision Song Contest 1988.

They were also used at Tora Bora, in Afghanistan.

That month, the girls released their first movie, Ladie's MAX and their third single, " Tora Tora Tora ," which debuted at # 19 giving them their first hit.

** Tura Prison or Tora Prison, a prison with high-security facility at Tura which has had numerous high-profile inmates and where presently Hosni Mubarak serves his life sentence

On 24 August 2005, Commodore Bainimarama went public with allegations that a number of politicians, including the nationalistic Senator Apisai Tora, had approached him at a meeting held in the boardroom of the Fijian Holdings company during the 2000 crisis and asked him to depose the newly appointed President, Ratu Josefa Iloilo, barely a week after Iloilo's inauguration.

Tora has a reputation in Fiji for being something of a chameleon, having championed both Fijian ethnic nationalism and multiculturalism at different times.

In 2000, Apisai Tora and a group of people at the Fijian Holdings boardroom, requested me as commander of the Military to remove Tui Vuda, Ratu Iloilo-whilst he was just a week in the Presidency ," Bainimarama alleged.

In a statement on 29 August, Tora emphatically denied having taken part in any meeting at the Fijian Holdings boardroom where the proposal to remove President Iloilo was allegedly discussed.

On 26 September, Justice Connors remanded Tora and his 12 accomplices in custody, pending sentencing at 9. 30am the following morning.

In his 2005 book, Jawbreaker, he alleges that Osama bin Laden could have been captured at Tora Bora if the US military ( specifically United States Central Command ) had devoted more resources to the operation.