War in Afghanistan
On September 11 2001, nineteen Al-Qaeda trained hijackers boarded four jet-liners and crashed three of the planes into national landmarks. This day went down in history as one of the most horrific tragedies since the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. The entire world was enraged and sought to avenge the deaths of the thousands of people who were killed in the attack. Intelligence agencies across the world discovered that mastermind behind the attack was Osama Bin Laden, a Saudi terrorist operating out of Taliban-run Afghanistan.
Terrorist training camps had been springing up all over the middle-east since the 1980s during the Afghan war with Russia. Bin Laden had been running many of these camps. He had been training young men in the ways of radical Islam. From this area, he launched attacks across the world in the name of Islam. This group was known as Al-Qaeda. After only a month of waiting, Coalition forces from across the globe demanded that the Taliban hand over Bin Laden or face deadly consequences.
When the Taliban refused, Afghanistan was invaded. Within weeks, Al-Qaeda training camps were destroyed and the Taliban’s infrastructure was shattered. Peace was brought to the Afghan people after years of oppression. After the United States invaded Iraq, many of the troops fighting in Afghanistan were diverted to fight Saddam’s Iraq. This left Afghanistan in a deadly predicament. The number of troops there could not sustain the amount of Taliban attacks occurring throughout the country. We still have yet to see if Afghanistan will be a place of total victory against terrorism.
