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9/11
Highjacked airliners crashed into both buiuldings of the world trade center in New York, and The Pentagon in D.C. -
Osama Bin Laden Is Made Top Priority
President George W. Bush declares that we will not stop until we have found Bin Laden. -
War in Afganistan Begins
Pre-recorded footage of Bin Laden showed him declaring that the world is now divided into two factions. -
Reward for Bin Laden
The U.S. spread the word that they were giving out a 20 million dollar reward for Bin Laden. -
Battle at Tora a Bora
War in Afganistan that was raging, Bin Laden signs last will before escaping U.S. capture. -
Accusational Video Released
The Pentagon releases a video that claimed shows bin Laden discussing the Sept. 11 attacks with guests at an al-Qaida dinner at a house in Kandahar, Afghanistan. In the tape, he says the attack surpassed his expectations. -
Bin Laden Admits to the Attacks
In a tape filmed to mark three months since Sept. 11, a tired-looking and gaunt bin Laden appears to take credit for the attacks. The background is a brown blanket used to hide any clues that could disclose his location. -
Another Attack
More than 200 people, citizens of 21 countries, are killed in a terrorist bombing on the resort island of Bali. The blast is attributed to Jemaah Islamiah, a pan-Asian network of Muslim extremists with ties to al-Qaida. -
Hostage Situation
About 50 armed Chechen militants seize a theater in Moscow where more than 800 people are gathered for a performance. More than 120 hostages die when security services gas the building. -
Al-Jazeera's Tape
Al-Jazeera broadcasts an audiotape purported to be by bin Laden in which he praises terrorist attacks on Bali, in Moscow and against a French tanker off the coast of Yemen. He links Australia’s role in East Timor to the attack in Bali. Doubts later emerge about the tape’s authenticity. -
Alliance Between al-Qaida and Saddam Hussein
Al-Jazeera broadcasts an audiotape of bin Laden calling on Iraqis to carry out suicide attacks against U.S. forces. Washington calls it evidence of an alliance between al-Qaida and Saddam Hussein. -
The U.S. invades Iraq
They invaded in hopes of stopping the terrroirst attacks. -
Bin Laden's location Revealed?
Al-Jazeera airs a videotape that appears to show a gaunt bin Laden walking with his second-in-command, Egyptian Ayman al-Zawahiri, through mountainous terrain. The two men refer to the second anniversary of the Sept. 11 attacks. -
Saddam Hussein is Captured
Saddam Hussein is captured. He is brought to trial under the Iraqi interim government. On Nov. 5 2006, he is convicted of charges related to the 1982 killing of 148 Iraqi Shi’ites and was sentenced to death by hanging. Saddam is executed on Dec. 30, 2006. -
Madrid Bombings
Ten bombs go off almost simultaneously in trains carrying commuters into Madrid. The attacks kill 190 people and wound about 2,000. -
European Truce
In a purported tape of bin Laden, the speaker offers a truce to European nations that decide not to “interfere” in Muslim nations but rules out any such deal for the U.S. -
Bin Laden Threatens
A recorded message attributed to bin Laden offers 10 kg of gold to anyone who kills the U.S. administrator in Iraq, Paul Bremer, or U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan. -
London Bombings
Four explosions strike London’s public transportation system, killing more than 35 people and wounding at least 700. -
New Wave of Terror Attacks
After more than a year of silence from bin Laden, a tape purportedly recorded by the al-Qaida leader warns that a new wave of terror attacks are in preparation. It also offers a truce to the U.S. if it withdraws from Afghanistan and Iraq. -
Bin Laden is Killed
bin Laden is killed in a U.S. raid on his compound in Pakistan.