18 Bush's 2001 Strike on Afghanistan 🇺🇸
On October 7, 2001, President Bush launched the first U.S. military strikes against Taliban targets in Afghanistan.

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226.7K views • Oct 8, 2019

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On October 7, 2001, U.S. President George W. Bush announced counterstrikes against the Afghan Taliban regime, its military installations and the terrorist training camps it was sheltering.
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READ MORE: On Tuesday, October 8, 2019, a U.S. official confirmed al-Qaida’s South Asia region chief, Asim Omar, was killed in a raid in southern Afghanistan last month and told VOA the September 23 operation was "Afghan-led, U.S. supported."
The Afghan National Directorate of Security said a joint operation — a term usually used to describe an operation that involves NATO forces — in the Musa Qala district of Helmand province also killed or captured several other members of the group al-Qaida in the Indian subcontinent, including some Pakistani nationals.
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LINK: https://www.voanews.com/south-central-asia/al-qaida-south-asia-chief-killed-afghanistan-raid
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READ MORE: On Tuesday, October 8, 2019, a U.S. official confirmed al-Qaida’s South Asia region chief, Asim Omar, was killed in a raid in southern Afghanistan last month and told VOA the September 23 operation was "Afghan-led, U.S. supported."
The Afghan National Directorate of Security said a joint operation — a term usually used to describe an operation that involves NATO forces — in the Musa Qala district of Helmand province also killed or captured several other members of the group al-Qaida in the Indian subcontinent, including some Pakistani nationals.
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LINK: https://www.voanews.com/south-central-asia/al-qaida-south-asia-chief-killed-afghanistan-raid
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