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Ahmad Shah Massoud, commander of the Northern Alliance, an anti-Taliban coalition, is assassinated by al-Qaeda operatives.Expert Peter Bergen later calls Massoud's assassination " the curtain raiser for the attacks on New York City and Washington, DC."
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Al-Qaeda terrorist hijack four commercial airplanes and crash them into the World trade center.
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President George Bush declares war on those responsible for 9/11 attacks
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U.S Military begins bombing against Taliban forces beginging of Operations Enduring Freedom
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Taliban leader Mullah Omar flees the city but despite them surrerendering al-Qaeda leaders continue to hide out in the mountains.
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End of fighting in Iraq Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld declares an end to major combat.
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In national voting Karzai becomes the first democratically elected head of Afghanistan.
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Afghan and UN investigations find that errant fire from a U.S. gunship killed dozens of Afghan civilians
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President Barack Obama announces plans to send seventeen thousand more troops to the war zone.
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President Obama outlines a plan to withdraw thirty-three thousand troops by the summer of 2012
