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9/11 twin towers attacked starts the war
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kill 5 and infect 17 others by anthrax spores in New York City, New York, Boca Raton, Florida, and Washington D.C. in the United States.
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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.
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the Iraq War begins. President George W. Bush refers to it as "the central front in the War on Terror".[
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The United States government, led by the Central Intelligence Agency's Special Activities Division, begins a series of ongoing attacks on targets in northwest Pakistan using drones (unmanned aerial vehicles). These attacks sought to defeat the Taliban and Al-Qaeda militants who were thought to have found a safe haven in Pakistan.[
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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.
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Osama bin Laden is killed in a raid by United States Naval Special Warfare Development Group on his residence in Pakistan
