From a Stolen Presidential Election, Through the 9/11: Attacks on the US, and to Afghanistan

Introduction

1- The election of a new president
2- The first months of George Bush's presidency
3- Terrorist attacks on the USA on September 11, 2001, and its consequences
3.1 September 11, 2001
3.2 After September 11
- 3.2.1 Immediate Reaction

- 3.2.2 Some Confusion?
- 3.2.3 The inquiries
- 3.2.4 Political consequences
- 3.2.5 Reconstruction of the World Trade Centre
- 3.2.6 One year on
- 3.2.7 Two years on
3.3 Justification for the terrorist attacks
3.4 Justification for retaliation
4- Osama bin Laden, al-Qaida, and the Taliban
4.1 Osama bin Laden
4.2 The Al-Qaida terrorist network
- 4.2.1 History of al-Qaida
- 4.2.2 Al-Qaida terrorist actions
- 4.2.3 Organisation and structure
- 4.2.4 Did US actions create and/or support al-Qaida?
- 4.2.5 Al-Qaida, the Taliban, and Afghanistan
- 4.2.6 Al-Qaida's Threat
4.3 The Taliban
- 4.3.1 Taliban History
- 4.3.2 Taliban at the end of the 20th century
5- War in Afghanistan and consequences
5.1 Preparing for war
- 5.1.1 In the USA
- 5.1.2 UN Intervention Before and After the Conflict
5.2 (part 1)War in Afghanistan
- 5.2.1 The war
- 5.2.2 American and British view of the war

5.2 (part 2) War in Afghanistan
- 5.2.3 Cost of the war
- 5.2.4 New Afghan administration
- 5.2.5 Are the Taliban and al-Qaida fighters finished?
5.3 Post war
- 5.3.1 Still more military actions

-5.3.1 - 2d part - Still More Military Actions

-5.3.1 - 3dpart-Still More Actions

-5.3.1-4thpart-Still More Actions
- 5.3.2 Internal politics and conflicts

- 5.3.2 Second Part After March 1, 2006
- 5.3.3 The Taliban, al-Qaida and Osama bin Laden, again
- 5.3.4 United Nations Again
- 5.3.5 Opium Production and Trade
- 5.3.6 Presidential and other Afghan elections
5.4 Prisoners of war and their treatment
- 5.4.1 At Guantanamo Bay
- 5.4.2 Prisoners held by the Americans in the USA and in Afghanistan
- 5.4.3 Prisoners held by the Afghans
- 5.4.4 Prisoners held elsewhere
5.5 Propaganda, good and poor!
6- No Torture, abuses, and mistreatments you said?
7- The Real Justification of the Invasion of Afghanistan; What the US want!
8- The Cost of the War
9- Conclusions

Annex 1: Hamid Karzai's Biography
Annex 2: UN Resolution 1368 (2001)
Annex 3: UN Resolution 1378 (2001)
Annex 4: UN Resolution 1386 (2001)