• Directly after 9/11 the Taliban control 90% of Afghanistan • Refuse to hand over Bin Laden or expel al-Qaeda • By late 2001, CIA and special forces operatives join the Northern Alliance • By 2002 – 350 special forces soldiers, 100 CIA operatives, 15,000
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Directly after 9/11 the Taliban control 90% of Afghanistan Refuse to hand over Bin Laden or expel al-Qaeda By late 2001, CIA and special forces operatives.
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•Directly after 9/11 the Taliban control 90% of Afghanistan•Refuse to hand over Bin Laden or expel al-Qaeda•By late 2001, CIA and special forces operatives join the Northern Alliance•By 2002 – 350 special forces soldiers, 100 CIA operatives, 15,000 Northern Alliance soldiers defeat 50,000 Taliban
Bin Laden escapes into the Northern tribal region of Pakistan
US shifts emphasis when war in Iraq begins in 2003
Taliban flees into Northern Pakistan and begins to expand South bringing Sharia law with them
Pakistani government reluctant/unable to challenge Taliban
Obama campaigns on a promise to withdraw troops from Iraq and put them in Afghanistan
End of Bush presidency and start of Obama administration see doubling of US troops (to 60,000)
By 2009 -- UK: 6,800; Germany: 3,400; France: 2,700