A senior U.S. official said an Afghan government defense commission, made up of Afghan officials and warlords, agreed to build up the country's army to 70,000 troops over the next two years. I think well see it in the future.56, Perhaps enemy commander Maulvi Saifurrahman Mansoor, who was up in the mountains, inadvertently best described the battles outcome when he said that al-Qaeda fighters would continue to wage jihad until our last breath against the Americans for the glory of Islam and for the defense of our country.57 MR. Adam Geibel is the S2 of the 5/117 Cavalry Squadron, 42d Infantry Division, New Jersey Army National Guard. The Tajiks were tasked with helping drive hidden Taliban snipers and fighters from the valley villages of Sher Khan Khel, Babal Khel, and Marzak.39. FORT DRUM, New York (WWNY) - Fort Drum's 10th Mountain Division remains in Afghanistan amid the Taliban's takeover of the country's capital city. The Afghan National Army (ANA) is divided into five combat Corps. where well encounter very, very substantial resistance. He commissioned from the United States Military Academy in May 2013. The pilot said it was a dead guy "about 9 by 12 feet laying in a fetal position on the pallet. India announced it would send 124 more busses to Afghanistan in addition to the 50 that it had already sent. The First Stryker Brigade Combat Team, Fourth Infantry Division, is deploying to Iraq for a nine-month tour of duty. Some rounds came within 30 meters of Butlers troops. in slow-motion. Four seconds later, Schmidt said he was "rolling in, in self defense." The number of soldiers killed in Afghanistan in 2021 amounted to 13 from the Western coalition, as of October 2021. February-March 2008 - The division leadership unit, an infantry brigade and aviation brigade deploy to eastern Afghanistan, and take command on the 101st day of the year. [11], Sunday, June 30: Two RPGs are fired at the U.S. airbase near Kandahar.[12]. Scattered groups, numbering as many as 20 members, including some family members, holed up in a 3,000-yearold complex of mountain tunnels, caves, and crannies. Wednesday, August 28: U.S. Special forces kill an armed man who displayed "hostile intent" near Lwara.[20]. Womack served in Afghanistan until August 2002, laying the groundwork for other women to play a key role with connecting to the local population alongside Special Forces operators. The missiles, three Scud-B warheads and three Frog-7 rockets, were believed to have been in Afghanistan since the, U.S. special forces shot and killed a gunman who fired on them near the central Afghan town of Deh Rawod. The shooting prompted U.S. forces to call in an airstrike on a building where the guard was believed hiding. But local Pashtuns have complained his forces have looted and oppressed them. Ashline later told the press, For a couple of seconds, ev erything was . First Women to attend Ranger . Guards beat back overflowing crowds trying to enter the stadium. "And Dan runs at him and starts shooting which broke all of us into the reality because it was surreal.". the blasts occurred late Monday in the vicinity of bases housing most of the troops from the 22-nation contingent. But instead, we did [killed] them.14 Five Charlie Company soldiers stayed on the ridge and, while receiving sniper and machine-gun fire, covered those moving away from the mortar impacts. Commander Abdul Mateen Hassankheil, who had 1,500 men fighting in Shah-i-Khot, was one of the critics: The U.S. does not understand our local politics; it does not know whom to trust, and [it] trusts the wrong people.43, According to Financial Times journalist Charles Clover, in a report from Gardez, Hassankheil claimed that the beginning of the battle was badly planned because the United States relied on intelligence from Padshah Khan, who had told them that the mujahideen at Shah-i-Khot were less numerous than was actually the case.44 Khan, a powerful local commander ousted as province governor weeks before the battle after clashes with militias in Gardez, allegedly had previously provided misleading information to U.S. military leaders. . Its first commander, Major General William C. Lee, observed that "the 101st"has no history, but has a Rendezvous with Destiny.". Friday, November 1: About 60 kilometers east of Khost, in Gardez, three rockets exploded just after midnight about one kilometer southwest of a compound housing U.S. special forces soldiers. Pakistan claimed the building was on its side of the border, but the Americans claimed it was on the Afghan side. International peacekeepers destroyed six missiles that had been seized two days earlier in an abandoned storage facility inKabul. Afghan President Hamid Karzai said he would "take care of this issue personally.". Leading B Company's 3rd Platoon, Parnell and his unit were expecting an ill-equipped force in Afghanistan, but what they found was a war-hardened group of fighters who had been fighting -- or . Monday, July 1: In central Uruzgan province, a U.S. B-52 struck suspected al-Qaeda and Taliban cave and bunker complexes, while an AC-130 gunship strafed several villages. September 11, 2001: Suicide attacks by Al-Qaeda take place in the United States. Operation Anaconda began before dawn on 2 March 2002. While I was assigned to the 332 Aerospace Expeditionary Group, I was never alerted to the possibility of live-fire training being conducted in the war zone. As the F15s neared the caves, Butler ordered his own men to fire their 60-millimeter mortars. I sincerely want them to know that my heart goes out to them and that I am truly sorry for their loss."[7]. Steven Quayle spoke of an occurrence, still classified by the US Government, in his popular Radio Show "Coast to Coast": the events allegedly happened in 2002 on a desert part of the Afghanistan, when a U.S. Army squad went missing. Amin says that in the Pak Army Journal (Summer 97) Brig Nisar does not mention any order coming his way from his Brigade Comd on 8 Sept 1965. After Umbach reminded him to unlock his weapons, Schmidt called "bombs away". MG F.L. A small team of US soldiers was today still missing in the same eastern Afghan mountains where a special forces helicopter was shot down earlier this week. There were lots of weapons, mortar tubes. Monday, June 24: U.S. forces fire mortars and call in close air support after coming under rocket fire near Jalalabad. A United States F-16 fighter jet piloted by Air National Guard Major Harry Schmidt dropped a laser-guided 500-pound (230kg) bomb on the Canadians, who were conducting a night firing exercise at Tarnak Farms. Operation Enduring Freedom (OEF) is a large military operation, being carried . As of 2 March 2002, Operation Anaconda was the largest combat operation in Afghanistan of the War on Terrorism that began after the attack on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon on 11 September 2001. The following lists events that happened during 2002 in Afghanistan. One soldier told the press that Zia punked out on us. Later, a car at a nearby house was discovered riddled with bullets. The helicopters returned one or two hours later to refuel and head out again with fresh troops and supplies.37, On 7 March, wind and sandstorms slowed allied air and ground operations, but near dusk a caravan of 12 to 15 Afghan tanks and armored personnel carriers rumbled down the main road south of Kabul toward Paktia Province and the high-elevation combat. He pointed to the mid-December 2001 Tora Bora air campaign as a successful template, but he failed to mention that many al-Qaeda and Taliban leaders had slithered away during that period. Grippe noted that more Afghan forces never arrived.9 Some of Grippes soldiers took out targets at ranges up to 500 meters with 5.56millimeter M4 carbines and M249 small arms weapons. The men were handed over to officials at Pakistan's embassy in Kabul and, in the presence of several delegates from the, While riding in a convoy about 4 miles (6km) east of, Two rockets were fired at the U.S. base near, Unidentified attackers fired four rockets at a U.S.-controlled airport in the eastern city of, Three people were killed and five wounded in a gun battle between police and fighters of a military commander in the southern city of, This page was last edited on 26 February 2023, at 20:18. U.S. I am a well recognized Consultant to the US Military, Law Enforcement . the force of U.S. Army Rangers and other coalition special forces, accompanied by members of the 82nd airborne division mounted five air assaults on the area surrounding the villages of Dormat and Narizah. Frustrated and angry, Butler ran 45 meters uphill six times onto the peak and exposed himself to enemy fire to pinpoint the enemys position so he could call in an air strike. I take exception to those folks who complain about what these people have done to get us to this point in the battlefield. October 7, 2001: On the same day that the United States begins operations against Al-Qaeda and the Taliban regime in Afghanistan, Canada announces that it is prepared to contribute sea, land and air forces to America's Operation Enduring Freedom under the Canadian operation named OP APOLLO. The U.S. 4th Infantry Division arrives in Kuwait City with 5,000 troops. Some training at Mountain Warfare Training Center (MWTC) Bridgeport is recommended for units deploying to those areas. He also had visits with Indian President Kocheril Raman Narayanan and Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee, Vice President Krishan Kant, and Leader of Opposition Sonia Gandhi. Jason Swinehart, a nineteen-year-old former high school football player from Ohio who arrived in Afghanistan only five days ago, his bag . Both units ran into heavy resistance. Thinking Umbach was under attack, Schmidt asked flight control permission to fire his 20mm cannons, to which flight control replied "hold fire." The two planned to mend relations and work together to promote stability in Afghanistan. Tuesday, November 19: The newest U.N. refugee camp of Zhare Dasht was criticized as being too remote, overcrowded and dangerously close to a mine field. Finally, I would like to tell the families of Sgt. Thus considering all of the circumstances, the disclosures at issue were clearly warranted."[13]. . Thursday, November 28: To date, U.N.-monitored disarmament commissions collected more than 6,000 small arms and 30 tanks in the northeast ofAfghanistan since the start of the disarmament plan on November 10. Predator drones and other CIA intelligence assets spotted the enemy assembling in groups south of Gardez, but rather than immediately attacking, U.S. Central Command (CENTCOM) let the terrorists gather to present a larger target. Iraq - October 16, 2002, through end of hostilities. U.S. Marine Corps Major Ralph Mills said Roberts died of a bullet wound after surviving a fall from the helicopter. 28 November 2003 - Marines from 2d Battalion, 8th Marines (2/8) joined the coalition forces of Combined Joint Task Force-180 in pursuit of al-Qaida and Taliban forces in Afghanistan. There will certainly be places . A U.S. soldier is shot in the face in Kandahar by an unknown assailant. Last edited on 7 September 2022, at 08:20, Princess Patricia's Canadian Light Infantry, "GO FLIGHT MEDICINE - Tarnak Farm - Reckless Pilots, Speed, or Fog of War? Thursday, February 14: Afghan interim leader Hamid Karzai visited Jalalabad to attend a function being held there in memory of former mujahedin commander Abdul Haq. [27], Wednesday October 23 Mortar fire is directed at a U.S. encampment in Asadabad.[28]. American forces in Afghanistan have suffered a series of setbacks during 2002, and a year after the fall of the Taliban the US army is under almost daily attack in its . Monday, August 5: U.S. Special forces kill two people after coming under fire near Asadabad. The deaths were the first of Canada's war in Afghanistan, and the first in a combat zone since the Korean War.[1]. . Play went on anyway despite the clash, and the international team won the game three to one. Ibid., 6. The Tarnak Farm incident refers to the killing, by an American Air National Guard pilot, of four Canadian soldiers and the injury of eight others from the 3rd Battalion, Princess Patricia's Canadian Light Infantry Battle Group (3PPCLIBG) on the night of April 17, 2002, near Kandahar, Afghanistan. Tuesday, April 9: A joint program between UNHCR and Iran encouraging repatriation of Afghan refugees went into effect. Saturday, November 9: U.S. helicopters broke up a gun battle between Kuchis and local government forces over a land dispute. Sunday, November 10: As part of an international effort in Afghanistan, work began on rebuilding a major highway. Saturday, November 2: Tajik forces loyal to Ismail Khan, the governor of Herat Province, launched the attack in the Zer-e-Koh district, killing two civilians and injuring 15 in a crowded market. Leger, Cpl. Initial war plans for Iraq had an initial American invasion force of about 130,000 soldiers and Marines, which would drop quickly to as few as 30,000 to 50,000 by the end of 2003. On the day battle began, the valley floor was sprinkled with small patches of snow. The battle area occupied about 60 square miles. Adds Troops and Helicopters in Afghan Battle,, Stephen Graham, Wounded U.S. All five pilots agreed under oath that the dropping of the bomb by Schmidt was not an unreasonable action. Ainsworth Dyer, Pvt. Everyone was frisked. As it turned out, the paratroopers basic load was enough for 24 hours, and resupply was unnecessary. I finally communicated to bossman that I was engaging in self-defence because my flight lead was at risk of being shot down. Witnesses claimed that Dostum jailed and tortured witnesses to prevent them from testifying in a war crimes case. Later, the autopsies would label the deaths as homicides. In November 2002, a Danish-German report would conclude that the explosives experts did not follow safety regulations while disarming two of the missiles. A U.S. soldier is shot by sniper near Lwara. The mission involved about 2,000 coalition troops, including more than 900 Americans, 200 U.S. Special Forces and other troops, and 200 special operations troops from Australia, Canada, Denmark, Germany, France, Norway, New Zealand, and Afghan allies. The MH-47 . Elsewhere, U.S. Special forces soldiers accompanied by 40 Afghan soldiers called in close air support after coming under attack near Skhin. The situation grew more tense when Pakistan dispatched extra troops to the border after the United States said it reserved the right to cross into Pakistan in hot pursuit of enemy fighters fleeing from Afghanistan. Fritsche joined the Army in 2002, soon after graduating from high school, and was promoted to sergeant in April 2005. Staff Sgt. The Afghans vowed to deploy 5,000 members of the new Afghan army corps to Helmand, to be partnered by British and later by US troops in 2010. I was just surprised at the intensity of what I saw on the valley floor.12 Sergeant First Class (SFC) Thomas Abbott, whose right arm was injured by shrapnel, added, Ive never been so scared in my life. Franks simply modified the Tora Bora tactics and sent in U.S.trained Afghans to block escape routes and do the fighting, only committing relatively large numbers of U.S. ground troops when Afghan allies ran into problems. July 1, 2005 / 7:16 AM / CBS/AP. Teams then moved through homes, pulling clothing from trunks, opening bins of flour and cutting plaster from walls to look for hidden compartments. They also had two blocking positions, one in a canyon running from the southeast of the valley and one running directly south. The attackers left behind an unexploded grenade and several leaflets warning parents to keep their girls at home. I had to make that decision with what I now know, with the acuity of 20/20 hindsight, was imperfect information My perception was that we had been ambushed, as we had been briefed that Taliban were expected to use ambush tactics in and around Kandahar. Support Platoon Leader Captain David Mayo of the 1/182d Infantry Regiment and his group provided security for the command and control element and conducted reconnaissance of potential resupply landing zones for the operation. As another unnamed senior officer rightly observed, No tactical plan ever survives the first encounter with the enemy. Hagenbeck, U.S. Department of Defense (DOD) News Conference, Tampa, FL, 4 March 2002. Fight and fall back. In other words, if Maj. Schmidt suddenly woke up at 14,000 feet (4,300m) and four nautical miles (7km) away from the mystery fire, it would be reasonable to drop a bomb in self-defense. Wednesday, February 27: Afghan interim leader Hamid Karzai attended a special ceremonial reception at the Rashtrapati Bhavan in New Delhi, India. Tuesday, February 12: Interim Afghan leader Hamid Karzai warned warlords to remove their check posts and chains on roads. About a dozen teachers taught the students how to use guns and bombs. They had been held since the collapse of the Taliban one year earlier. Wednesday, March 27: A U.S. soldier is killed by a mine outside of Kandahar. U.S. Marines with Special Purpose Marine Air-Ground Task Force-Crisis Response-Central Command, take a moment to . January 24, the Hazar Qadam raid Americans accidentally attacked an allied compound collecting weapons for their Karzai government. The border guard was taken into custody. Publishing Disclaimer: In all of its publications and products, Military Review presents professional information. Lieutenant Colonel Craig Fisher: There were no "significant departures from flight discipline". U.S. soldiers who were inside the air base, also came under fire. Diego Antolini THE WITNESS Steven Quayle spoke of an occurrence, still classified by the US Government, in his popular Radio Show "Coast to Coast": the events allegedly happened in 2002 on a desert part of the Afghanistan, when a U.S. Army squad went missing. You save your resources from attrition to make sure you stay in power when its all over.46 Hagen-beck and Wiercinski said they did not know Zias experience or background, but commanders who had worked with Zia before had spoken highly of him.47, Other U.S. officers theorized that someone leaked the plan of attack to the enemy. The Mail Star (November 10, 2003). Local ethnic Pashtun commanders warned they would fight national army forces if the Afghan defense ministry, controlled by ethnic Tajik General Mohammed Fahim, did not withdraw troops joining the offensive. . Two U.S. soldiers in Kandahar are wounded during a firefight with unknown forces. Private First Class Jason Ashline was struck by two bullets in the chest but survived because the rounds lodged in his vest. Temperatures hovered near 15 to 20 degrees Fahrenheit.3. 4 mccll/pad/v7_0 7 Moments later, the enemy popped back out to wave, throw rocks, then fire their mortars and heavy machine guns at U.S. troops. An unidentified Special Forces officer noted that the majority of the new forces were Pushtun and that their commanders had dropped old rivalries for the larger goal of eliminating the last of the al-Qaeda and Taliban pockets.41 On 10 March, the officer estimated that between 100 to 200 al-Qaeda forces remained in the valley and that U.S. forces were not approaching the most dangerous part of the war but were in it. The radio logs show that Schmidt requested permission from flight control to fire his 20mm cannons at what he said to be an anti-aircraft or Multiple Launch Rocket System below. You dont want to take too many combat losses yourself. The Task Force's presence allowed the Haitian legislature to reopen on 28 . By Thomas Gibbons-Neff. In the south, intelligence units estimated that their two positions would possibly have to contain the most terrorist exfiltrators. Troops Describe All-Day Shah-i-Khot Battle,, Army Capt. Friday, December 27: In the Gardez District of Afghanistan, five people were killed and six wounded when guests at a wedding party fired a rocket propelled grenade into the air, only to have it land nearby and explode. To date, Germany had a total of 10,000 troops serving abroad, second only to the United States. The actual snow line began about 100 feet above the valley floor. Al-Qaeda and Taliban leaders must have smelled blood, because the shift in U.S. tactics drew masses of them out of hiding and into combat. He was around an 1100 pound guy.". The 1,000 Afghan reinforcements, under Northern Commander Gul Haider, were largely Tajik troops who had fought under their late commander, Ahmad Shah Massoud, against the Taliban.38. Saturday, July 27: US soldiers surrounded a compound near Khost and a firefight took place. Most of Zias trucks were destroyed, and his troops retreated to Gardez.6. The women had all been detained for petty crimes. Perhaps one of the most spectacular strange creature reports in the Middle East of all is a case detailed by reporter and researcher L.A. Marzulli in his series The Watchers, of a United States Special Forces unit that allegedly not only sighted, but also engaged and killed what can only be described as an actual giant in Afghanistan. Tuesday, February 5: Calling on his countrymen to "take each other's hands" to rebuild the nation, interim Afghan leader Hamid Karzai raised Afghanistan's new flag over the presidential palace. Only small juniper trees grow on the mountain slopes. At 0930 hours on 19 September 1994, 1st Battalion, 87th Infantry and 2nd Bn 22 Infantry conducted the Army's first air assault from aircraft carrier. Iran pledged $560 million to Afghan reconstruction over five years. The hilltop battle developed during a nighttime attempt to establish a new observation post overlooking a major al-Qaeda supply and escape route. The lone man not accounted for was U.S. Navy Petty Officer First Class Neil C. Roberts, a door gunner.18. While flying at 23,000 feet (7,000m), they reported surface-to-air fire. They were told not to move. Within five minutes, a B-52 dumped its load and scored a direct hit on the mortar position, ending all movement.10. The new combined arms units contain fewer than a hundred troops and about a dozen tanks and other armored vehicles. Thursday, November 14: Construction began on a key highway connecting Kandahar to Spinboldak, Pakistan. Denmark announced that a March 6 blast that killed two German and three Danish soldiers "could have been avoided if everyone had respected the safety procedures." U.S. Marines attack Iraqi militia units in Nasiriya. . Forces Gain Edge in Afghan Attack,, Diggers in heavy Afghan fighting, Australian Associated Press (AAP) via. They just kept sending them into our meat grinder. Haq was brother of the Jalalabad governor, Haji Abdul Qadir. When allied troops searched the snow-covered mountains for caves and other signs of al-Qaeda fighters, they found several 57-millimeter recoilless rifles, an 82-millimeter mortar, some documents, and night-vision goggles identical to U.S. models. Saturday, March 9: The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies and the Afghan Red Crescent Society (ARCS) jointly celebrated International Women's Day in Kabul. Units of the 101st Airborne Division moved into the mountains north and east of Sirkankel to block mujahideen escape routes and, with Australian and U.S. Special Forces, blocked routes to the south. Aug 12, 2021. Schmidt's testimony at his Article 32 hearing was that he believed his flight leader, Umbach, was under attack. In August 2016, a YouTuber posted a lengthy interview with a military . A small U.S. Special Forces detachment ac companied local Afghan commander Zia Lodin as his men entered the valley from the south and headed to Sirkankel to flush out suspected al-Qaeda and Taliban forces.5. Second Lieutenant Christopher Blaha, who inscribed the names of two of his friends lost on 11 September on all his hand grenades, radioed in an air strike while his 1/87th rifle platoon returned fire on the enemy mortar position about 2,500 meters away. Major General F.L. Thursday, September 5: A car bomb was detonated in downtown Kabul, Afghanistan, killing more than 30 Afghans. The fire was actually from a Canadian Forces anti-tank and machine-gun exercise, which was taking place on a former Taliban firing range. Troops Say Afghans Failed Them,, Gannon, U.S. SYDNEY (Reuters) -New Zealand police were searching for eight people still missing after Cyclone Gabrielle struck two weeks ago, authorities said on Sunday, amid warnings of more wild weather for the nation's . Monday, December 2: Fierce clashes between forces of Amanullah Khan and Ismail Khan resumed in western Afghanistan. . [13], Thursday, July 12: A U.S. compound in Tarin Kowt comes under small arms fire but no casualties are reported.[14]. To western journalists the T-55 tanks and BMP-1 personnel carriers of General Muhammad Nasims command looked like a moving museum. Sunday, December 29: A Pakistani border guard shot and wounded a U.S. soldier in the head in eastern Afghanistan's Paktika province, just a few hundred yards from Pakistan's border. On July 6, 2004, Umbach was reprimanded for leadership failures and allowed to retire. In 2002, an elite tactical team was said to have killed the Kandahar Giant, a 13-foot-tall beast with flaming red hair, six fingers on each hand, and two sets of teeth. Declared missing in action or a prisoner of war. The other soldier said: "It was a man at least 12 to 15ft high. Wednesday, April 3: A tripartite accord regarding repatriation of refugees was signed in Geneva by Iran, Afghanistan, and the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees. Because such an event in a combat area would have been so unusual and unexpected, information about such training would be the type of information we would note so that we could avoid it. The 173rd Airborne Brigade ("Sky Soldiers") is an airborne infantry brigade combat team (IBCT) of the United States Army based in Vicenza, Italy.It is the United States European Command's conventional airborne strategic response force for Europe.. forces step up attacks on al-Qaida fighters,, Barry Bearak, Old Arms Now Joining the Newest Near Gardez,, Kathy Gannon, Coalitions Afghan Allies Feud,, Geoffrey Mohan and Esther Schrader, Back at Base U.S. Sunday, February 10: Interim Afghan leader Hamid Karzai released more than 300 captured Taliban soldier. Scout sniper teams directly east of Marzak were watching two small canyons that ran out of the village. Friday, February 15: Fighting broke out at a goodwill soccer game between an Afghan national team and international peacekeepers. [15], Tuesday, August 6: U.S. troops kill four people in a car after a passenger with a gun attempted to open fire on them.[16]. March 2009 - Soldiers . Apparently, by 10 March, complaints from local commanders prevented Afghan tanks from going any farther than Gardez. Police fired into the air and used water cannons to break up the march. The Tarnak Farm incident refers to the killing, by an American Air National Guard pilot, of four Canadian soldiers and the injury of eight others from the 3rd Battalion, Princess Patricia's Canadian Light Infantry Battle Group (3PPCLIBG) on the night of April 17, 2002, near Kandahar, Afghanistan.. A United States F-16 fighter jet piloted by Air National Guard Major Harry Schmidt dropped a . United States Special Forces killed a giant in Kandahar in 2002, and the government is trying to cover it up. Schmidt's charges were reduced on June 30, 2003, to just the dereliction of duty charge. Tuesday, November 5: A rocket or mortar was fired at a U.S. Army Special Forces base in Gardez, but caused no injuries. U.S. soldiers of B company, 4th Infantry Regiment patrol in Baylough in Zabul province, southeastern Afghanistan on April 1 . Nathan Smith, members of the 3rd Battalion of the Princess Patricia's Canadian Light Infantry. By 2018, both women were commanding infantry units, and as of April 2020, fifty women had graduated from Ranger School. 187TH INFANTRY, 101ST AIRBORNE DIVISION 19 March 2003 to 22 October 2003 In the first three months of the campaign, 15 U.S. personnel died. Unexpectedly Stiff Resistance Meets Coalition Forces Mount in Attack on Al-Qaida and Taliban, AP, 5 March 2002. 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