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Posted on 12/06/2001 11:28:04 PM PST by Grampa Dave
The War On Terror: How It Unfolded
Taliban supreme leader Mullah Mohammed Omar has agreed to surrender Kandahar, his last major bastion, to tribal forces and put himself under the protection of tribal leaders.
Here is a timetable of the key events leading to the surrender:
September 11: Hijacked passenger jets slam into the World Trade Centre and Pentagon, killing thousands. Bin Laden and his al Qaeda terror network are immediately suspected as being behind the attacks.
September 12:US President George Bush announces he will make no distinction between the perpetrators of the atrocities and those who harbour them. Bin Laden congratulates the people who carried out the US strikes but denies responsibility, Abu Dhabi television reports.
September 13: Bin Laden confirmed as a suspect by US Secretary of State Colin Powell.
September 14: Mullah Mohammed Omar, the leader of Afghanistan's ruling Taliban regime, defends bin Laden against US accusations that he masterminded the terror strikes.
September 15: The United States is officially declared at war by President Bush, who says that bin Laden is their prime suspect.
September 24: Governments across the world announce they are taking action to freeze the assets of bin Laden and the al Qaeda network. Television reports quote bin Laden as urging Pakistanis to fight any assault on Afghanistan by the "crusader Americans".
October 2: Prime Minister Tony Blair speaks to the Labour Party conference in Brighton, warning the Taliban it should surrender bin Laden or "surrender power". Nato says the US has produced "conclusive evidence" that bin Laden was behind the attacks.
October 4: Firm evidence links bin Laden to at least three of the hijackers, Mr Blair tells Parliament.
October 7: First reports of explosions over the Afghan capital. President Bush speaks to the American people, confirming the "carefully targeted" air strikes and announcing that the war on terrorism is under way. Prime Minister Tony Blair said "the objectives to eradicate Osama bin Laden's network of terror" had been put in place. Ruling Taliban officials say they are "ready for jihad" - holy war.
October 8: Bin Laden threatens more violence against America saying: "You will not feel safe or secure." Speaking on Al Jazeera he calls on Muslims around the world to join a war on America.
October 10: Bin Laden's terror group al Qaeda calls for Muslims across the world to join a holy war against America and its allies, and claims there are "thousands of young people who look forward to death." Afghanistan's ruling Taliban regime is showing signs of cracking under the strain of coalition air strikes, British defence sources claim. As US warplanes began a fourth straight night of bombing raids on Taliban defences, officials in London said the regime could collapse without the need to send in ground troops.
October 13: Taliban rulers reject Mr Bush's second chance offer to surrender bin Laden and instead pledge to fight to "the last breath".
October 16: US officials confirm for first time that a heavily-armed special forces AC-130 Spectre gunships have been in action attacking Taliban military bases. The lumbering AC-130 - adapted from the Hercules transport aircraft - is typically used to support special forces troops on the ground, intensifying speculation that such units are already operating inside Afghanistan.
October 17: The US-led coalition begins to turn its firepower on Taliban troops fighting the rebel Northern Alliance in an effort to turn the screws on the Afghan regime. Northern Alliance fighters are reported to be close to capturing the key northern city of Mazar-e-Sharif and to be threatening the capital, Kabul.
October 19: The Taliban leadership continues to voice defiance after it emerges that US special forces are now operating behind the lines inside Afghanistan.
October 20: US special forces are parachuted into enemy territory, killing Taliban troops and destroying key targets in ground attacks. Later reports claim that the operation was bungled and led to 12 American soldiers being injured.
October 22: Defence Secretary Geoff Hoon confirms that US warplanes have now turned their attention to Taliban positions facing Northern Alliance forces around the Kabul and the northern city of Mazar-e-Sharif.
October 23: Mr Hoon says that all the al Qaeda terrorist training camps have been destroyed by the air strikes.
October 29: The Pentagon says US warplanes have begun systematically bombing the cave complexes where bin Laden and his key lieutenants are believed to be hiding out.
November 3: Bin Laden issues new call to arms to Muslims to defeat the "infidels" attacking Afghanistan as the US-led coalition steps up the bombardment of his Taliban allies.
November 4: More elite US special forces troops are deployed into Afghanistan as America claims Taliban has ceased to function as an effective government. Northern Alliance rebel fighters say they have mounted a major offensive on Mazar-e-Sharif.
November 9: Northern Alliance warlord Rashid Dostum says his forces have smashed through Taliban defences and recaptured Mazar-e-Sharif. November 13: Limited numbers of Northern Alliance soldiers enter Kabul after Taliban troops are reported to have fled. The hunt for bin Laden intensifies.
November 20: As the Taliban continue to retreat US aircraft broadcast radio messages to the Afghan people calling on them to turn over bin Laden and claim a massive reward.
November 22: US special forces step up the hunt for bin Laden, using high tech sensors which can see in the dark and pierce 100ft of solid rock.
November 23: American military chiefs draw up a `hit list' of cave networks where the terrorist leader may be hiding based on information from spy planes, satellites and patrols from special forces.
November 26: Several British troops are wounded in Afghanistan as they serve alongside US forces, Defence Secretary Geoff Hoon tells MPs.
November 27: US Marines seize an airstrip near the Taliban stronghold of Kandahar and set up a base to launch attacks on the city. Anti-Taliban forces backed by US air strikes and special forces put down an uprising near Mazar-e-Sharif, where hundreds of pro-Taliban foreigners who surrendered from the besieged town of Kunduz had turned on their guards.
December 3: Pentagon chiefs order hi-tech missiles which will be be able to pierce the almost impregnable Tora Bora complex, where bin Laden is reported to be living.
December 4: US spies find evidence bin Laden and the al Qaeda network have made strides towards producing a crude atomic bomb, known as a dirty bomb. The device does not use a nuclear explosion but conventional means to spread large doses of radiation over a wide area.
December 6: Taliban supreme leader Mohammed Omar agrees to surrender Kandahar to tribal forces. The last major stronghold of the Taliban falls.
Last Modified: 17:05 UK, Thursday December 06, 2001
December 6: John Ashcroft severely kicks traitor Leaky Leahy's butt for hours on Capitol. Zell Miller sends warning to the anti Americans in his party to wake up. We are at war! Leahy, Dasshole, Kennedy and Chifi slivered off into the darkness after Ashcroft creamed them Zell Miller's warning!
This is an excellent timeline. As you read it, try to remember all that the naysayers said 24/7 from the 9/11 mass murders to today! How they insulted our military and our president to cover for the mass murderers! They are even bigger losers than the Talibaners!
Good night! Grampa Dave is going to bed with this good news!
Congratulations to the men and women in our military. There is no military in the world beside them capable of doing what they did. Congratulations to President Bush and his capable staff! Congratulations to those of us who have supported President Bush and our military since the mass murders of our innocent on 9/11! The nay sayers can go to hell with their buddies the Talibaners and Leaky Leahy!
So which Islamic fanatic/terrorist breeding ground is next in line for extermination of their infection?
Good post and you are so right .
Daschle was on the Foxnews "War on Terror" segment and had high praise for The Bush war effort!
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Pleasant dreams, friend.
Thanks for the ping John.
Set a Goal...then relentlessly pursue that Goal until Victory is Achieved!!
RE-IMPEACH. CONVICT. DETHRONE.
DISBAR. DE-PENSION. DE-LEGITIMIZE.
INDICT. CONVICT. IMPRISON. DISCARD KEY.
I heard Dubyuh in a speech Rush played yesterday or the day before and he said (and I paraphrase) "Folks keep telling me to 'Move On' but I'm not about to 'Move On' until Justice is done, because I believe it is important that Justice be done!!" Sure, Dubyuh was talking about Terrorism, but he didn't have to use the same terminology--"MOVE ON"--as the Left is using vis a vis the Clinton Criminality, he consciously chose those specific words.
It is my humble opinion that George W. Bush will Do What's Right with respect to his predecessor's Criminality...and ultimately, Bill Clinton will die in a Federal Penitentiary, after spending years and years as a sex-slave to a 6'6", 335-lb. cell-mate named "Dwight"!!
Quite Sincerely...MUD
All we gotta do is keep on pluggin' away and it shall come to pass, my FRiend.
FReegards...MUD
BTW...anybody know any ornery 6'6", 335-lb. Patriots in Prison we can nickname "Dwight"?! LOL!!
Even *if* we did, Mud; that Sink Emporer has o be crawlin' with every kind of STD, wart, & festering sore there is...some we haven't names for as-of yet.
I'm afraid even a *Dwight* wouldn't touch that mess.
...only 22 yr old *princesses* from families of privlege would consider touching that thing.
You think?! I've always imagined chubby ol' Slick to be a soft, powdered-up fella sorta like the Pre-SOOOOOOOOEEEEEEEEE Ned Beatty in "Deliverance." We'll find someone willin' to do the dirty work, I'm sure!!
"...only 22 yr old *princesses* from families of privlege would consider touching that thing."
No can do...it'd be too much like Slick's life today...we want him on the receivin' end of what he's been dishin' out fer all these years...IMHO, of course.
LOL and FReegards...MUD
BTW...FReepMail me yer email address and I'll send you a copy of some photos that'll make you guffaw.
Well I'd expect we would find plenty of those *kind* of people...
There's certainly no shortage of 'Rats who'd be honored to do the consummate oinker, I suppose.
"...we want him on the receivin' end of what he's been dishin' out fer all these years...IMHO, of course."
I'll take a piece of that *opin*, too.
"BTW...FReepMail me yer email address and I'll send you a copy of some photos that'll make you guffaw."
I *suppose* you can be trusted... {g}
September 15: The United States is officially declared at war by President Bush, who says that bin Laden is their prime suspect.
As you and I both know, only Congress can "officially" declare war. :)
While it is not totally complete without the capture of OBL and his co mass murdering Islamic Thug, Omar, the Taliban is no longer in control of Afghanistan!
Thanks to your indexing this, we now have a concise timeline of events since 9/11!
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