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President declares war on Terrorism
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Planes crashes into twin towers
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troops sent to iraq
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Congress strats protection for the U.S.
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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
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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