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Usama Bin Laden, the leader of the terrorist group Al Queda and mastermind of the 9/11 attacks, was based in Afghanistan. After the September 11th Attacks, there was a policy change that dictated that anyone harboring those who attacked us would not be treated any different than those who did the attack. When the Taliban, the then governing body in Afghanistan, refused to hand over Bin Laden, the US Military was tasked to remove the Taliban and pursue Al Queda. That was the start of the now 9yr war.

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