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On this day, four planes in the US airspace were hijacked and rerouted to crash into the World Trade Center, Twin Towers, the Pentagon. This kicked off a period if increased warfare in the war on terrorism.
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This is when Bush declared war on terror.
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Many countries around the world pledge support for the US. This leads to many allies being made with the US in the war on terror.
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On this day, the US began bombing places that had suspected Taliban and al-Qaeda connections.
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This was fought in the search for Osama Bin Laden. The thought that the Taliban was harboring Bin Laden caused the US
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This was the strategy that congress made to combat the war on terror. For more information, click the other tab above.
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On this day, the Taliban captured and killed Abdul Haq. Haq had been previously fighting in southern Afghanistan and attempted to create an anti-Taliban movement. He was also considered the main person in Afghanistan that could have created a strong government after the Taliban were removed.
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On this day, Pakistan closed the last Taliban embassy in the country.
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This is the conference that set up the interim government in Afghanistan. Hamid Karzai is elected leader of interim Afghanistan government.
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Audiotape of Bin Laden telling Iraqi forces to carry out suicide bombing on US. This is when the US associated Iraq with terrorism.
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On this day, the US invades Iraq, a country believed to have ties to al-Qaeda and the Taliban.
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On this day, Saddam Hussein was captured and brought to trial under the Iraqi interim government.
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A video emerged in which Saddam Hussein admits to the attacks on September 11th. He also threatens new attacks on the US.
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Saddam Hussein, after being convicted, was executed on this day.
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Bin Laden was killed in a US raid on his compound in Pakistan.