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Ahmad Shah Massoud assasiated
Ahmad Shah Massoud, commander of the Northern Alliance, an anti-Taliban coalition, is assassinated by al-Qaeda operatives.Expert Peter Bergen later calls Massoud's assassination " the curtain raiser for the attacks on New York City and Washington, DC." -
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Terrorist Attack Twin Towers
Al-Qaeda terrorist hijack four commercial airplanes and crash them into the World trade center. -
Bush declares war
President George Bush declares war on those responsible for 9/11 attacks -
bombs away
U.S Military begins bombing against Taliban forces beginging of Operations Enduring Freedom -
Taliban Surrerenders
Taliban leader Mullah Omar flees the city but despite them surrerendering al-Qaeda leaders continue to hide out in the mountains. -
major combat ends
End of fighting in Iraq Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld declares an end to major combat. -
Afghanistan new president
In national voting Karzai becomes the first democratically elected head of Afghanistan. -
innocent killed
Afghan and UN investigations find that errant fire from a U.S. gunship killed dozens of Afghan civilians -
Obama sends more troops to Afghanistan
President Barack Obama announces plans to send seventeen thousand more troops to the war zone. -
Troops Withdrawn
President Obama outlines a plan to withdraw thirty-three thousand troops by the summer of 2012
