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Daugo.

All this week we've been looking back at the events before and after the 9-11 attacks by Al-Qaeda

against the United States.

In October 2001 the United States launched what it and its allies called Operation Enduring Freedom

in Afghanistan where Al-Qaeda's leader Osama bin Laden was based.

In 2011 I spoke to two Afghans who were in Kabul the night of the first US

airstrikes, the 7th of October 2001.

For days the people of Afghanistan had been waiting. It was almost a month since Al-Qaeda attacked the World Trade Center and America had sworn to hunt down those responsible.

Our mission is not just Osama bin Laden the Al-Qaeda

organization. Our mission is to battle terrorism. Afghans knew this meant an attack on their country.

Al-Qaeda had been a guest of the ruling Taliban for years and the Taliban had refused

to hand them over. The US and its allies would strike, the people of Kabul just

didn't know when. It has sort of silenced life in Kabul. People hardly came out on the

streets even though there was not an official curfew but people

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