But after sheltering Osama bin Laden and key al Qaeda figures in the wake of the 11 September 2001 attacks on the World Trade Center in New York, the Taliban would fall after a US-led military coalition launched an offensive on 7 October 2001. Despite being ousted from...
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Five weeks after the largest terrorist attack on U.S. soil, Green Berets were chosen to secretly enter Afghanistan and join forces with Afghan General Abdul Rahid Dostum, a powerful, volatile leader who loathed the Taliban. About 48 hours prior to insertion, the group was told...
In her home province of Swat Valley, girls were banned from attending school by the Taliban. After appearing in theNew York Timesdocumentary, she gained global recognition as a speaker on the education of girls, and has brought about huge change in this area ever since. She took A-Level Ma...
inside Trump’s administration, given how complicated it would be with his companies, what’s becoming clearer tonight is that he doesn’t really need to,” CNN anchorKaitlan Collins saidin a broadcast Sunday. “One source told me Elon Musk is having just as much influence from the outside...
Patrice Lumumba Ford has been accused of membership in a terrorist group dubbed the Portland Seven, members of which attempted to travel to Afghanistan shortly after 9/11 in order to aid the Taliban. He refused to cooperate with the government and was sentenced to eighteen years in prison (avo...
Unfortunately, he was murdered by a US hit squad instead of being brought to the US to stand trial. Mullah Omar, the Taliban leader, was adamant that bin Laden was not behind the attacks. So who did it? In my view, the attacks were financed by private citizens in Saudi Arabia and ...
Believe me, it’s what you need to read right now. Ben H. Winters – Underground Airlines It is the present-day, and the world is as we know it: smartphones, social networking and Happy Meals. Save for one thing: the Civil War never occurred. A gifted young black man calling ...
“Something is happening in [Russia], but definitely without Ukraine’s drones over the Kremlin,” Podolyaksaid in a post to Twitter. ‘Performative Strike’ Most experts concluded that it was highly unlikely that the incident was an assassination attempt on Putin: The Russian leader rarely spend...
He made it through the training, naturally, and became a full-fledged SEAL who eventually wound up fighting the Taliban in Afghanistan. In March of 2002, Turbo was part of Operation Anaconda (we dare you not to think about G.I. Joe while reading that sentence), one of the first large-...