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The Taliban started to regroup and take power again. They began by starting small attacks on motorcycles. They would set small bombs in the ground and ambush the foreign troops. They would start going bigger and the TTP would start to attack across the border. Later after they decided they had become powerful enough to start attacking bigger. Jalaluddin Haqqani became in charge of controlling the southeastern region. The Taliban would control the south. The Taliban worked out the problems with their allies Gulbuddin Hecmatyar so they could run the eastern part of Afghanistan (Pointon, 2007).
In 2001 they increased the growth of them and began supplying most of the world with them. Poppies are drugs such as cocaine and heroin. After the invasion in spring, they created a 74,000 square footage farm for poppies. They had fifty heroin lads and then got so big they started crystal heroin. They started morphine rigs of the back of their pickups so they could take it across the border. With
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The U.S. was helping the Afghan military fight off the Taliban offense. During the fight one American soldier got killed and two was wounded. After the fight an American helicopter went back to look for other wounded soldiers and came back damaged. A medical evacuation helicopter went and when he was going the rotors struck a compound and was not able to get the wounded soldiers. An American Black Hawk transport then got sent to get the wounded soldiers and landed in the enemy territory because of a mechanical problem. A warplane was also a part of the war and help the Americans and Afghans by shooting airstrikes at the Taliban. The war was scheduled to end December 31st. Over the year that the U.S. stopped the Taliban took back over most of the territory. The Taliban did not win at first but, went the Americans took time off for the funeral the Taliban gained control over the territory again (Nordland,

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