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Osama bin Laden creates al Qaeda with a large group of mujahideen that were fighting the Soviets in Afghanistan
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Osama bin Laden sets up training camps in Sudan
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al Qaeda attacks UN troops in Somalia and 18 U.S. military personnel are killed
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al Qaeda re-groups in Afghanistan after bin Laden is kicked out of Sudan
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al Qaeda bombed a U.S. military base and killed 19 U.S. soldiers along with hundreds of others injured
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The Taliban take control of Afghanistan and offer refuge to bin Laden and al Qaeda
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Bombs were set off at U.S. embassies and 231 people were killed along with 5,000.
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Two al Qaeda suicide bombers attack the USS Cole and kill 17 U.S. sailors
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bin Laden threatens to attack the U.S. via video
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al Qaeda put off the largest terrorist attack ever on U.S. soil and hit the Twin Towers and the Pentagon with commercial airplanes, killing over 2,500 U.S. citizens.
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al Qaeda calls for a "Holy War" against the United States
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Osama bin Laden threatened war on Britain, France, Italy, Canada, Germany, Australia, and all other supporters of the U.S.' fight on terrorism/al Qaeda.
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The United States sends military forces into Iraq in the War on Terror
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President George W. Bush declares war on terror in Iraq
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Osama bin Laden claimed direct responsibility for the terrorist attacks on 9/11
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Osama bin Laden releases a video of one of the 9/11 hijackers' last message with a image of the burning buildings.
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A team of Navy SEALs attacked bin Laden's home/compound in Pakistan and kill him after years of trying to get rid of him and al Qaeda
