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August 30
First exhibition game for the Cardinals -
September 23, 2001
The Cardinals play their first game since August 30. Tillman was very upset about that game, he did not play well and was very hard on himself about that game. -
Septmeber 30, 2001
The Cardinal's lost again. -
October 7, 2001
Tillman played another football game, but the game was delayed for an important speech given by the president. Tillman thought a lot about the words that were said. -
October 19, 2001
The first American troops grounded 80 miles south of Kandahar. The Bush Administration was relying on air strikes as opposed to special forces. -
November 11, 2001
Tillman came back to play after his injury. They lost. -
November 13
Northern Alliance fighters took control of Kabul, scattering the Taliban. -
November 25
CIA officer Johnny Michael Spann was gunned down by the Taliban during a prison uprising while interrogating prisoners of war -
Devember 5
Karzai was leading 800 Pashtun men in a battle against the Taliban
outside of Kandahar -
December 11
the Al Qaeda fighters contacted Eastern Alliance commanders to ask for a truce and to negotiate their terms of surrender. At 5:00 when no enemy came forward to surrender, the Americans declared the truce to be invalid. -
December 14
confirmation that the al-Qaeda leader had given up and was preparing to die. There was a radio transmission from bin Laden where he thanked his “most loyal fighters”, asked forgiveness. Fighted for three more days but came to a gruesome end. -
December 17
the battle of Tora Bora came to a stop. They entered the caves and did not find the body of bin Laden like they had expected. -
January 1
first days of 2002 many al Qaeda and Taliban had been killed and a large percentage also had fled over the border into Pakistan, or into the countryside.
