They might consider the account of Commander Akhtarjhan, who joined the mujahedeen at age 12 after two older brothers were killed, and fought for 13 years.
"We are taking the full range of possible scenarios into account," southern police commander Yoram Halevy told the station.
Instead, it is an account of a commander and his battalion and how they brutalized (or killed) innocent Iraqi civilians as a tactic for controlling the insurgency.
Yet many days, it seems as though the White House is delivering a play-by-play account of the commander in chief's decision making.
In response to the commander's account, Mr. Browne said: "The vast majority of our commanding officers are scrupulously honest.
The book, subtitled "A Delta Force Commander's Account of the Hunt for the World's Most Wanted Man," is described as "the first eyewitness account of the Battle of Tora Bora" and was written by Dalton Fury.
When the men arrived at Mazar, they were expected to surrender, but initially resisted, according to the commander's account.
But the first detailed government account, from a police commander, placed blame for the violence on Tajik mercenary snipers, hired by Mr. Bakiyev's family.
And Mr. Lynch gave a magnificently forceful account of Mussorgsky's "Commander in Chief," and a playful performance of Gizella Zuccaman's "Big Brown Bear".
At midnight the exact details on the ground were still unclear, with the battlefield shrouded in darkness and the account of the main commander, Hazarat Ali, equally opaque.
