Question 5 • 11011de2 CONNECTED Fall 2026 NM-US History and Geography S2
After the September 11 attacks, the United States led a military campaign in Afghanistan against al-Qaeda and the Taliban government that sheltered it. The coalition removed the Taliban from power in 2001. Osama bin Laden was not removed from power as a government, and Saddam Hussein ruled Iraq, not Afghanistan.
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