This just in, you were looking at obviously a very disturbing live shot there.

That is the World Trade Center, and we have unconfirmed reports this morning that a plane

has crashed into one of the towers of the World Trade Center.

CNN Center right now is just beginning to work.

And the people who knocked these buildings down will hear all of us soon.

Good afternoon.

On my orders, the United States military has begun strikes against al-Qaeda terrorist

training camps and military installations of the Taliban regime in Afghanistan.

We are supported by the collective will of the world.

Two years after invading Afghanistan, President Bush announced mission accomplished,

but that was still just the beginning.

It's been 17 years and $1.5 trillion, and U.S. troops are still in Afghanistan,

along with soldiers from NATO.

A classic example of perpetual warfare.

Hello again, I'm Arun Al-Ni. Negotiations are now underway, including the Taliban, because

there's no better military option, and we'll have an update on that later. But first, back to the

beginning. Associated Press report coming out of Afghanistan, that explosions, anti-aircraft fire has

been heard, has been seen in Kabul, the capital of Afghanistan.

You would not at all be surprised.

As the fighting began, many people in the United States were hearing about Afghanistan for

really the first time.

But while he was growing up in

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