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America attacks Afghanistan

Just a month after 9/11, the US launched airstrikes against the Taliban and al-Qaeda.

In October 2001, just a month after the 9/11 attacks, the first airstrikes against Afghanistan began in what the US and its allies called Operation Enduring Freedom. The country was being targeted because it had provided a haven for al-Qaeda. In 2011 Louise Hidalgo spoke to two Afghans who were in Kabul the night the bombing started.

(Photo: The aftermath of a US airstrike on Kandahar. Credit: Getty Images)

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