october 2000 during a port call in yemen. they vaulted to the top of the terrorism ladder because they are so violent. the randomness of the bin laden type violence was just violence for violence sake. he is a mass murderer. oliver: within days of launching operation enduring freedom, the taliban and al-qaeda were on the run. they were no match for the northern alliance backed by cia operative special forces, u.s. marines and american air power. for a couple weeks there it seemed like the taliban were hanging on but eventually they couldn t maintain frontline positions because we were pulverizing them. on 12 november, the taliban fled kabul, the capital. a great many were able to just go back to their villages and blend back into the population. a tremendously successful
organization al-qaeda. under the leadership of osama bin laden and ayman.n ayman chronicles the rise of the radical islam in his books blow the house down. he and bin laden got together and focused on the african bombings. 7 august 1998. u.s. embacies in tanzania and conditionia bombed simultaneously, killing hundreds. the cole. 17 sailors were killed when the destroyer was attack on 12 october 2000 during a port call in yemen. they vaulted to the top of the terrorism ladder because they are so violent. the randomness of the bin laden