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1 History of Afghanistan
By: lack and lank

2 Afghanistan Civil War 1989-1992
The Afghan civil war started in 1989 after the end of the Soviet war Shortly after the civil war the Taliban took control of the country in 1994 Taliban organized camps for radicalized Muslims lead by Osama bin laden

3 Terrorists Terrorists in Afghanistan organized a series of attacks on different countries and even their own country Afghanistan became a lead country in harboring terrorists Main country in the war of the Middle East Massive human rights violations

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6 9/11 Al-Qaeda group in Afghanistan fly planes into twin towers and pentagon killing thousands of American citizens lead by Osama Bin Laden

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9 The Afghanistan War After 9/11 troops were put into the country to stop the taliban militarily Many Afghans actually wanted the U.S. in the country to help stop the taliban

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11 2009 In 2009, Barack Obama drastically raised the amount of troops in Afghanistan

12 With 496 casualties, 2010 was by far the deadliest year for U. S
With 496 casualties, 2010 was by far the deadliest year for U.S. troops fighting a war in Afghanistan One American Killed Every 18 Hours Almost 17 times as many U.S. troops were killed in the Afghanistan war in 2010 as were killed in 2002

13 On August 6th,2011, American forces suffered their single deadliest day.
Taliban killing 30 Americans and 8 Afghan people.

14 From 2012-2014 taliban had a new one-eyed leader named Mullah Muhammed Omar
Taliban receiving videos of U.S. soldiers urinating on Taliban corpses.

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16 Works Cited Afghanistan. N.p.: n.p., n.d. Google. Web. 12 Nov Afghanistan Online. San Ramon, n.d. Web. 12 Nov < Country Reports. N.p., n.d. Web. 12 Nov <


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