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Operation Anaconda was an effort by the United States military, CIA Paramilitary Officers, NATO forces and allied Afghan military to destroy al-Qaeda and Taliban forces. Operation Anaconda took place from March 2 to March 16, 2002, in the Shahi-Kot Valley and Arma Mountains of Afghanistan near the border with Pakistan. In this video, soldiers discuss what it was like on the ground during the operation.

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John Walker Lindh is an American citizen who was captured in Afghanistan in November 2001 as an enemy combatant. Lindh was brought back to the United States on January 23, 2002 and stood trial in United States federal count in February 2002. Lindh took a plea bargain and was sentenced to 20 years in prison without parole. In this video, Lindh’s parents speak about their son and how they believe he is innocent and should be released from prison.

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Pat Tillman, born November 6, 1976, was a professional American football player and soldier in the United States Army. Tillman gave up a lucrative NFL career in order to enlist in the United States Army in June, 2002, following the September 11 attacks. Tillman was killed while serving in Afghanistan on April 22, 2004. While the Army first reported that Tillman had been killed by enemy fire, it was later revealed that was the victim of friendly fire. In this video, fellow soldier Specialist Bryan O’Neal testifies about the day that Tillman was killed. O’Neal recalls: “Before he was able to finish telling me what our plan was, we had started to receive fire from a GMV. AT first, it was short, sporadic. We didn’t really – I didn’t really understand what was happening. I looked and saw that it was friendly fire coming towards us. Pat asked me basically what was going on, and I let him know. It didn’t take long before those in the GMF who were stopped at the time, to dismount and open up on us with the 50-calibur machine gun and the 240-bravo machine gun.”

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Kabul, the capital of Afghanistan, has become the frontline for war between Taliban insurgents and western troops. In this interview, two failed suicide bombers, Abdul Quboshi and Farman Ullah, discuss how they got involved with the Taliban.  The young boys explain that they were at school when the Taliban came to talk with them, claiming that it was their religious duty under Jihad to become suicide bombers and that they would be immediately taken to “paradise” once they followed through. They talk about the explosives that were strapped to their vests and their mission of killing a local Afghan governor. Hekmat Karzai, an expert on the Taliban’s ability to brainwash their participants, explains how they use the religious obligation of Jihad to justify war and recruit suicide bombers.

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