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| | Afghanistan timeline May 2004 |
 | | A homemade bomb was uncovered in a girl's school being used as a voter registration center in Puli Alam, Afghanistan. | | | In Kabul, Afghanistan, a rocket-propelled grenade killed a Norwegian ISAF peacekeeper and injured another as a four-vehicle convoy was driving back from patrol. | | | In Helmand province, Afghanistan, four Afghan National Army soldiers and one rebel died in a clash. |
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| | THE COMPLETE 9/11 TIMELINE, PART 4: Sept. 11, 2001 - Dec. 2001 |
| | September 11, 2001 (G): The 9/11 attack: four planes are hijacked, two crash into the WTC, one into the Pentagon, and one crashes into the Pennsylvania countryside. At least 3,000 people are killed. A more detailed timeline focusing on the hours of this attack appears on a separate page. | | | The two groups are developing contingency plans to attack Pakistan's military bases and remove its nuclear weapons if the Pakistani government or the nuclear weapons fall into the wrong hands. | | | September 17, 2001: Congressman Dana Rohrabacher (R), who claims to have made many secret trips into Afghanistan and even fought with the mujaheddin, describes to Congress a missed opportunity to capture bin Laden. |
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| | 2001 - 9/11 Timeline |
| | Around this time, intercepts from Afghanistan warn that al-Qaeda could attack an American target in late June or on the July 4 holiday. | | | April 2001 (B): A source with terrorist connections speculates to US intelligence that "bin Laden would be interested in commercial pilots as potential terrorists." The source warns that the US should not focus only on embassy bombings, because terrorists are seeking “spectacular and traumatic” attacks, along the lines of the WTC bombing in 1993. | | | The next month US Central Command begins planning for war with Afghanistan, plans that are later used in the real war (see May 2001 (F)). |
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| | AFGHANISTAN TIMELINE JANUARY 2001 |
| | Taliban forces pounded opposition positions with heavy artillery initiating a counter-attack to retake the Ghalmin district in Ghor province, Afghanistan. | | | In Ghor province, Afghanistan, Taliban fighter planes bombed the Ghalmin district in support of a two-pronged infantry attack in which two opposition soldiers were wounded and six militia men killed. | | | The Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan announced it was allowing all humanitarian organizations, including the United Nations, to continue their operations, except for the offices of United Nations Special Mission for Afghanistan. |
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| | "Oh Lucy! - You Gotta Lotta 'Splain' To Do" |
| | summer 2001 - The online newswire online.ie reports on Sept. 14 that an Iranian man phones U.S. law enforcement to warn of an imminent attack on the WTC in the week of Sept. 9. | | | August 2001 - Russian President Vladimir Putin orders Russian intelligence to warn the U.S. government "in the strongest possible terms" of imminent attacks on airports and government buildings. | | | Recent court proceedings – which occurred after the news story we had cited - have indicated that there was no connection between the story listed here, the person named therein and the attacks of 9-11-01. |
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| | Gunmen Kill 11 Chinese Workers in Afghanistan (washingtonpost.com) |
| | KUNDUZ, Afghanistan, June 10 -- Gunmen fired into the tents of sleeping Chinese road workers 22 miles south of the northern city of Kunduz early Thursday, killing 11 in one of the worst attacks on foreigners since the overthrow of the Taliban in 2001. | | | The provincial governor blamed the raid on radicals bent on destabilizing the government of President Hamid Karzai by attacking foreign and Afghan troops as well as aid and reconstruction workers ahead of elections in September. | | | The Chinese ambassador to Afghanistan, Sun Yuxi, said before boarding a plane for Kunduz that there were 20 unidentified attackers. |
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| | U.S. invasion of Afghanistan - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | Many protesters felt that the attack on Afghanistan was unjustified aggression and would lead to the deaths of many innocent people by preventing humanitarian aid workers from bringing food into the country. | | | Even with popular support, and it is not certain that the coalition has obtained it, and advanced surveillance technology, locating small bands of 5-10 men in the vast stretches of rugged terrain that exist in southeastern Afghanistan and along the Pakistani border, and who are determined to avoid contact, is an almost impossible task. | | | Before October 7, there were reports that U.S. and British special-forces soldiers were covertly landed in Afghanistan at some time after September 11, presumably for reconnaissance purposes, and that several of these troops were captured by the Taliban. |
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| | myAfghan News |
| | JALALABAD, Afghanistan - Kidnappers have abducted threeAfghan electoral workers in an area of eastern Afghanistan where a female colleague was wounded in an attack days earlier, an official said on Saturday. | | | Suspected Taleban gunmen kill a judge in southern Afghanistan, as violence mounts ahead of elections. | | | Suspected Taliban insurgents shot dead a judge in violence-plagued southern Afghanistan, where a government official and a policeman were also killed in separate attacks. |
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| | Wolfowitz Says U.S. Dedicated to Liberation of Afghanistan |
| | In December, the discovery of a videotape in a safe house in Afghanistan led to the arrest of an Al Qaeda cell in Singapore that was planning to attack a U.S. aircraft carrier and U.S. personnel in that country. | | | Even before last September, the United States was the largest contributor of humanitarian aid to Afghanistan. | | | Our efforts in Afghanistan have also helped law enforcement actions more directly. |
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| | Plan of Attack MetaFilter |
| | The plans were on his desk November, 2001, and the invasion took place in March, 2003. | | | Amongst its claims are that Saudi ambassador Prince Bandar was informed of the plans for Iraq before Colin Powell, and that $700 million designated by Congress for the war in Afghanistan was used to prepare for the war in Iraq. | | | And I went through this with White House people in some detail, and the president again confirmed that they -- he approved this $700 million and that it was from the Afghan appropriation. |
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| | Media's Take on the News: 3-12-03 to 4-24-03 |
| | AFGHANISTAN AND IRAQ: The 1998 decisions by the Clinton Administration to fire 450 cruise missiles into Iraq (and 72 into Afghanistan) were also justified by no attack on the United States on the part of Afghanistan or Iraq, and were not authorized by either Congress or the United Nations. | | | As for Afghanistan, the study concluded, it was still too early to draw conclusions about the political evolution of that country. | | | Little attention was paid to Qasim's bloody and conspiratorial regime until his sudden decision to withdraw from the pact in 1959, an act that "freaked everybody out" according to a former senior U.S. State Department official. |
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| | History of Afghanistan since 1992 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | Nevertheless, they held onto Afghanistan's diplomatic representation in the UN as only three countries in the world continued to recognize the Taliban government. | | | In 2001, as part of a drive against relics of Afghanistan's pre-Islamic past, the Taliban destroyed two large statues of the Buddha outside of the city of Bamiyan and announced destruction of all pre-Islamic statues in Afghanistan, including the remaining holdings of the Kabul Museum. | | | Current problems that exist for the administration include controlling bands of bandits roaming Afghanistan's rural sector, removing the debris (and in particular, unmapped buried landmines) from decades of civil war from the countryside, and rebuilding the Afghan economy. |
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| | The Agonist Afghanistan |
| | NYT - Armed men in military uniforms opened fire on the defense minister's car on Saturday morning as it was leaving the airport here, in an attack the ministry called an assassination attempt. | | | Though Brand apologized to his wife, children, and his mother, he did not apologize for the debilitating attack on a detainee known as Dilawar for which the jury convicted him of Wednesday. | | | She says poverty, lack of education, and the damage left by decades of conflict are often cited as the prime causes for the current situation in Afghanistan. |
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| | Articles - December 2003 |
| | The Federal Bureau of Investigation issues a memo instructing police to be alert of people carrying almanacs, stating that information in these reference works could be used to aid in the planning of terrorist attacks. | | | The USA admits that at least nine children have been mistakenly killed in a bombing attack near Ghazni, Afghanistan. | | | Following electoral success in the Northwest Territories general election, 2003 Joe Handley is unopposed for election as premier of the Northwest Territories by the legislature. |
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| | Afghanistan |
| | A little-noticed aspect of this past weekend's elections in Afghanistan was the high rate of voter turnout among women. | | | Afghanistan to Take Guantanamo Detainees The Bush administration is negotiating the transfer of nearly 70 percent of the detainees at the US detention facility in Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, to three countries as part of a plan, officials said, to share the burden of keeping suspected terrorists behind bars. | | | Afghanistan has become the hub of a global network of detention centers, the frontline in America's 'war on terror', where arrest can be random and allegations of torture commonplace. |
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| | [ Afghan Elections 2004-2005 ] |
| | Shir Ali is forced out by British pressure; his imprisoned son, Mohammad Yaqub, is installed by the British as amir; however, after an attack on the British Embassy in Kabul, another invasion of Afghanistan is ordered. | | | In a compromise decision, he was chosen as the first interim president of Afghanistan after the fall of the communist regime in April 1992. | | | British forces invade Afghanistan, ousting Dost Mohammad and installing as ruler in Kabul the former Saduza'i monarch, with disastrous consequences as the puppet ruler along with the entire British army is killed by the Afghans. |
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| | u_s__invasion_of_afghanistan.html |
| | Many protesters felt that the attack on Afghanistan was unjustified aggression and would lead to the deaths of many innocent people by preventing humanitarian aid workers from bringing food into the country. | | | The United States, with support from the United Kingdom and the Northern Alliance invaded Afghanistan in October, 2001 as part of its "War on Terrorism". | | | It is estimated that in Afghanistan there are 1.5 million suffering from immediate starvation, as well as 7.5 million suffering as a result of the country's dire situation - the combination of civil war, drought-related famine, and, to a large extent, the Taliban's oppressive regime. |
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| | "Oh Lucy! - You Gotta Lotta 'Splain' To Do" |
| | summer 2001 - The online newswire online.ie reports on Sept. 14 that an Iranian man phones U.S. law enforcement to warn of an imminent attack on the WTC in the week of Sept. 9. | | | A more complete timeline listing crucial events both before and after the Sept. 11 suicide attacks, which have been blamed on bin Laden, establishes CIA foreknowledge of them and strongly suggests that there was criminal complicity on the part of the U.S. government in their execution. | | | The White House maintained that a Supreme Court decision in 1977 allows presidents various privileges for their records. |
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| | Al-Zawahiri: Tapes and Intentions |
| | Massoud was the victim of a suicide attack which occurred at Khvajeh Ba Odin on September 9, 2001, two days before the September 11, 2001 Terrorist Attack in the United States, a timing considered significant by some commentators. | | | As the Taliban established control over most of Afghanistan, Massoud's forces were increasingly forced into the mountainous areas of the north, where they controlled some 10% of Afghanistan's territory and perhaps 30% of its population. | | | Following the collapse of Rabbani's government and the rise of the Taliban, Massoud became the military leader of the Northern Alliance, a coalition of various Afghani opposition groups in a prolonged civil war. |
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| | Afghanistan - Wikipedia |
| | On October 7, 2001 the United States began an attack on Afghanistan in response to the September 11, 2001 Terrorist Attack, which the United States asserts is the responsibility of Osama bin Laden, who resides in Afghanistan under Taliban protection. | | | Afghanistan was at war with the USSR from 1979- 1989, during which Pakistan, the United States, and other countries backed the mujahedin against the USSR. | | | In 1997 the Taliban, a group of "Islamic students" took control of the country (except for a small region in the northeast), restoring relative peace and stability through the enforcement of severe Islamic laws restricting a wide range of freedoms in an effort to realize their idea of a true and pure Islamic state. |
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| | Definition of January 2002 |
| | Developing stories: 2001 U.S. Attack on Afghanistan - individual cases of anthrax | | | Kunduz, Afghanistan - New York City- Pakistan - Palestine - United States of America - | | | Euro banknotes and coins become legal tender in 12 member states of the |
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| | Al Qaeda massing for new fight csmonitor.com |
| | ASADABAD, AFGHANISTAN – Three separate clashes with Al Qaeda fighters this week, including Wednesday's foiled attack inside the city of Kabul, point to the terrorist organization's resurgence in Afghanistan. | | | Their battle plan, Afghan intelligence sources say, is to launch a massive attack on eastern Afghanistan, by crossing along the poorly defended mountainous border of Kunar Province, where opium and timber smugglers take their products out of Afghanistan either undetected or with the compliance of corrupt Afghan border officials. | | | Local military commanders, who report to the Ministry of Defense, complain that the Americans are working only with one warlord, Commander Zarin, and not with the official military units of President Hamid Karzai's government. |
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| | USATODAY.com - Two arrested over slaying of Chinese workers in Afghanistan |
| | KUNDUZ, Afghanistan (AP) — Two men were arrested Friday over the slaughter of 11 Chinese road workers in northern Afghanistan, the deadliest attack on foreign civilians since the fall of the Taliban. | | | The attack was the worst in a series against relief workers, private contractors and staff preparing for U.N.-sponsored elections, threatening already slow reconstruction efforts in this war-wrecked country as well as the planned September vote. | | | Daoud, the de facto ruler of Kunduz and several neighboring provinces, denounced "the enemies of Afghanistan" — a stock Afghan phrase encompassing Taliban and al-Qaeda rebels and followers of renegade warlord Gulbuddin Hekmatyar. |
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| | afghanistan.asinah.net Encyclopedia with 2500 Afghan articles |
| | Massoud was the victim of a suicide attack which occur-red at Khvajeh Ba Odin on Sep 9, 2001, two days before the 9/11 Terrorist Attack in the United States, a timing consi-dered significant by commentators. | | | In the spring of 2003, it was estimated that 30% of Afghanistan's 7,000 schools had been seriously damaged during more than two decades of Soviet occupation, civil war and Taliban rule. | | | Daoud and his entire family was murdered in 1978 when the communist People's Democratic Party of Afghanistan lauched a coup and took over the government. |
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| | BBC News AMERICAS Ground Zero flag sent to Afghanistan |
| | An American flag from Ground Zero in New York, signed by relatives of victims of the World Trade Center attack, is to fly from the base of US Marines in southern Afghanistan. | | | The 12ft by 18ft (3.6m by 5.5m) flag is being sent to the marines who on Sunday helped to seize an airstrip near Kandahar- their mission there appears to be to cut off the escape routes for Osama Bin Laden, blamed by the US for the 11 September attacks. | | | The flag is being given to the Marines because three members of New York Police Department's emergency services unit who died in the attack were former marines. |
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| | USATODAY.com - Woodward book says Bush secretly ordered Iraq war plan |
| | WASHINGTON (AP) — President Bush secretly ordered a war plan drawn up against Iraq less than two months after U.S. forces attacked Afghanistan and was so worried the decision would cause a furor he did not tell everyone on his national security team, says a new book on his Iraq policy. | | | By Tim Hynds, Sioux City Journal, AP Bush feared that if news got out about the Iraq plan as U.S. forces were fighting another conflict, people would think he was too eager for war, journalist Bob Woodward writes in Plan of Attack, a behind-the-scenes account of the 16 months leading to the Iraq invasion. | | | A commission investigating the attacks just concluded several weeks of extraordinary public testimony from high-ranking government officials. |
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| | frontline: hunting bin laden: who is bin laden?: chronology PBS |
| | US retaliation against bin Laden--cruise missiles attack a suspected terrorist training camps in Afghanistan and Al Shifa, a pharmaceutical plant in Khartoum. | | | Bin Laden summons Rahimullah Yusufzai, a reporter for Pakistan's The News, Time Magazine and John Miller of ABC News, to his tented encampment in Afghanistan's Helmand province for interviews. | | | Bin Laden flees Saudi Arabia, after being confined to Jiddah for his opposition to the Saudi alliance with the United States. |
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| | New York State Senate >> About the Senate >> Historical Timeline |
| | In the months to come, the United States deploys troops to Afghanistan to fight terrorism. | | | Both Houses of the State Legislature meet in an historic joint session and adopt resolution condemning the recent terrorist attack. | | | When the Senate and Assembly fail to reach a compromise on reapportionment in February of 1966, |
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| | US planned war in Afghanistan long before September 11 |
| | The 2000 election and Bush’s attack on democratic rights | | | The Afghanistan pipeline route was pushed by the US-based Unocal oil company, which engaged in intensive negotiations with the Taliban regime. | | | While the nominal purpose of the conference was to discuss the possible outline of a political settlement in Afghanistan, the Taliban refused to attend. |
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