
Operation Enduring Freedom Fast Facts
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Read CNN's Operation Enduring Freedom Fast Facts and learn more about the war on terror and al Qaeda in Afghanistan and the unseating of the Taliban government.
Timeline October 7, 2001 - Operation Enduring Freedom begins. US President George W. Bush announces that US and British forces have begun airstrikes on Taliban and al Qaeda targets in Afghanistan. Airstrikes continue for five days.
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