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War on Terror

By bethythack216
  • 9/11 Terrorist Attack on the U.S.

    9/11 Terrorist Attack on the U.S.

    Terrorist group Al-Qaeda attacked the towers of the World Trade Center in New York City and the pentagon in washington.

  • War in Afghanistan begins

  • Operation Active Endeavour Begins

  • Operation Enduring Freedom – Philippines begins

  • the Georgia Train and Equip Program begins

  • Operation Enduring Freedom - Horn of Africa begins

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    anti-war groups protest against war with Iraq

    anti-war groups across the world organized public protests against war with Iraq. About 36 million people across the globe took part in almost 3,000 protests

  • The Iraq War begins

    President George W. Bush refers to it as "the central front in the War on Terror

  • Saddam Hussein is found and captured by U.S. forces

  • The Georgia Train and Equip Program ends

    but military assistance to Georgia continued through the Georgia Sustainment and Stability Operations Program.

  • U.S. government begins a series of attacks on targets in Pakistan using drones

    The United States government begins a series of ongoing attacks on targets in northwest Pakistan using drones. These attacks sought to defeat the Taliban and Al-Qaeda militants who were thought to have found a safe haven in Pakistan

  • the Operation Enduring Freedom – Trans Sahara begins

  • Terrorist attack in London

    the 1st London bombings kill 52 people and injure 700 more

  • Became the "war with Al-Qaeda"

    Newly elected Obama administration has stopped using the phrase "war on terror" John Brennan announces that the U.S. is "at war with al Qaeda", not involved in a "global war on terror"

  • Osama Bin Laden is killed

    killed in a raid by United States Naval Special Warfare Development Group on his residence in Pakistan