War in Afghanistan begins

October 7, 2001

Less than a month after the Twin Towers fell, American and British bombs lit up the skies above Kabul and Kandahar. Northern Alliance horsemen rode alongside CIA officers carrying laser designators and suitcases of cash. The Taliban regime crumbled within weeks, but Osama bin Laden vanished into the mountains around Tora Bora, and the war would drag on for twenty years.