A journalist, Anne Karpf, has made a list of the American "lucky finds" after the September 11, 2001, attacks. Up to March 19, 2002, she had found nineteen such unbelievable documents and it was not finish. The day after the attacks on the twin towers in New York City, a copy of a fight manual in Arabic, and a copy of the Koran were found in the car hired by Mohammed Atta abandoned in a Logan Airport parking in Boston. A week later, two blocks away from the twin towers, Atta's passport was found having been flown there intact despite the intense fire following the attacks. On September 24, in the belongings of Zacarias Moussaoui, the FBI found a crop dusting manual. Four days later, Atta's suicide note was also found containing, among other things, the recommendation that anybody who was on the point of meeting his Maker should shine his shoes. In December a video of bin Laden laughing and boasting was discovered by the Intelligence Services in a house in Jalalabad. Again in January 2002, an e-mail sent by the "shoes bomber" Richard Reid was found on the hard disk of a computer in an Internet café in Paris. In it, Richard claimed responsibility for downing the Paris-Miami flight before even boarding it. Luckily for the FBI, poor Richard had a business card with the address of the cyber café in his pocket when he was arrested. In March, Major General Frank Hagenbeck revealed that the Americans had found in an abandoned training camp in Afghanistan, many field manuals on how to organise terrorist activities, as well as instruction manuals on how to use light automatic weapons. And in mid March 2002, the American Intelligence authorities said that they had just noted an increase in money transfers between groups of al-Qaida fighters. Of course, the public airing of all these "discoveries" are for the American public who is always ready to "swallow" this propaganda without even thinking twice if it is credible or not. Most non-American people will see them for what they are: propaganda, and ways to try to justify the past, present, and future American military actions in Afghanistan and in other countries. Of course, the US Intelligence Services forgot to mention that they did not know anything in advance of the attacks of September 11, 2001 despite their enormous budget and personnel. Moreover they have not yet been able to identify the authors of the Anthrax attacks in the USA despite offering a reward of 2,5 million dollars for information; they were unable to find the US journalist Daniel Pearl kidnapped before he was killed in Pakistan. There were not even able to locate its corpse or a long time. Worse of all, despite a reward of 25 million dollars, they have not yet found bin Laden or been able to confirm his death, if it is the case, killed by the bombardments or of illness. And this is also true for Mullah Mohammad Omar.

A new newspaper, War Times, will soon start publication in the US aiming to tell the truth about the war in Afghanistan. As an example, it was said in March 30 that the first American soldier killed in the Anaconda operation earlier this month might have been the victim of friendly fire. An US AC-gunship plane may have killed chief Warrant Officer Stanley Harriman, together with three Afghans, in the battle in the Shah-I-Kot Valley.

In 2002, more and more American people realise that the war in Afghanistan was not as successful as the internal propaganda machine tried to make them believe. Orders have been given to the military to send Special Forces in Afghanistan to try to capture or kill at least a few Taliban and al-Qaida leaders, a task that they have not done up to now. It is becoming clear, even in the USA, that bombing from 30,000 feet avoided killing American soldiers but also, that it did not prevent the fighters and their leaders to escape.

U.S. President George W. Bush on Saturday May 21, 2005, saw a "rebirth of freedom" in Afghanistan, as he sought to emphasize close ties with the country's government despite last week's deadly anti-American protests.

American commanders on May 21, 2005, said the Taliban are still a strong resistance force in Afghanistan even three years after the Islamic radicals fell but the US military's fight to undermine their influence and bring stability is showing signs of progress. The assessment came as US troops in Afghanistan have been killed at a higher rate than those in Iraq, where there are about eight times as many American soldiers, and where the situation is widely perceived as more dangerous.

Twenty-seven US soldiers serving on the front lines of the war on terror in Afghanistan became the newest American citizens during a special July 4 overseas military naturalization ceremony. "There are Soldiers from 17 different countries who will be taking the Oath of Allegiance on America 's 230th birthday," said Army Maj. Gen. Benjamin Freakley, Coalition Joint Task Force-76 commander. "Today, these fine Soldiers will be unified as Americans."

On Monday July 14, 2008, Barack Obama pledged to increase US troops in Afghanistan. If he becomes president, he would send 10,000 more to reinforce the 33,000 already there. Obama has promised, soon after becoming president in January, to begin scaling back the 156,000 US troops in Iraq and Kuwait, and to shift the focus to Afghanistan.