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Operation Cyclone
A code name for the United States Ceb=nteral Intelligence Agency program to arm and finance the Afghan mujahideen. -
Al-Qaeda is founded
Al-Qaeda has carried out many attacks on non-sunni muslims, non-muslims, and other targets they consider. -
First Al-Qaeda attacks in Somalia
They attacked in many ways, such as suicide bombing. -
World Trade Center Bombing
A truck bomb was parked below the North Tower. It was intended to knock the North Tower into the South Tower, bringing both towers down and killing tens of thousands of people. -
United States Embassy Bombings
The bombings are widely believed to have been revenge for American involvment in the extradition, and alleged torture of four member of Egyptian Islamic Jihad who had been arrested in Albinia in two months prior to the attacks. -
Afghan Mujahedeen was formed
Mujahedeen is the most closely associated by the west with radical Islam, an haves dealt with several mititant groups and struggles. -
Osama Bin Laden was killed
The FBI placed a 25 million bounty on him in their search for him. -
Taliban allows Al-Qaeda in Afganistan
Spread into Afganistan and formed a government.
