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First exhibition game for the Cardinals
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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.
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The Cardinal's lost again.
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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.
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The first American troops grounded 80 miles south of Kandahar. The Bush Administration was relying on air strikes as opposed to special forces.
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Tillman came back to play after his injury. They lost.
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Northern Alliance fighters took control of Kabul, scattering the Taliban.
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CIA officer Johnny Michael Spann was gunned down by the Taliban during a prison uprising while interrogating prisoners of war
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Karzai was leading 800 Pashtun men in a battle against the Taliban
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
