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Early 1900's - Afghanistan need the lead supplier of the world's heroin.
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CIA predict the fall of Mohammed Najibullah due to the soviet retreat. The soviets continued to fund and arm the puppet regime they had set up in Afghanistan.
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Ten thousand holy warriors under nine different mujahideen commanders assembled outside of Jalalabad. Amoung them, Osama bin Ladin.
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1990-Bin Laden left Afghanistan and returned to Saudi Arabia.
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Bin Ladin fled to Khartoum, capital of Sudan
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1500 lb. bomb made using fertilizer, fuel, oil, nitroglycerin, sulfuric acid, and sodium cyanide packed in a van was detonated in a parking garage beneath the north world trade center tower.
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Spring of 1995- Twenty thousand taliban fighters supported by tanks and jets advanced on Herat.
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Winter of 2007- A small contingent of American soldiers and Afghan Security Guard stationed in Operating Base Tillman, attacked frequently by Haqqani forces.