Events (15)

• Before September 11, 2001: US Military’s Special Forces Never Used Against Al-Qaeda Before 9/11 2001-09-11
• (8:46 a.m.-9:03 a.m.) September 11, 2001: Special Operations Personnel Are Away from the US for a Counterterrorism Exercise in Europe 2001-09-11
• After 9:03 a.m. September 11, 2001: Delta Force Personnel in Hungary Receive Numerous False Reports of Attacks in the US 2001-09-11
• After September 11, 2001: Bush Administration Updates Operation Garden Plot 2001-09-11
• October 20, 2001: US Special Forces Little Used in Afghanistan for Fear of Casualties 2001-10-20
• March 21, 2009: US Special Forces Used by Afghan Drug Clan to Take out a Rival in Secret Raid, according to German Military 2009-03-21
• June 5, 2009: Pentagon Sends 1,000 Additional Special Operations Forces to Afghanistan Ahead of McChrystal Confirmation 2009-06-05
• May-November 2009: US Quadruples Clandestine Special Operation Raids in Afghanistan
• Autumn 2002: Anthrax Attacks Suspect Hatfill Helps Train US Special Forces while FBI Investigates Him
• Early-November 2006: US Intelligence Tracks Al-Qaeda Leader for Months in Pakistan, but Does Not Try to Capture or Kill Him
• Late 2002-Early 2003: More Talented US Personnel Redeployed from Afghanistan to Iraq
• Late 1998-2000: US Administration Officials Seek Ground-Based Plan to Kill Bin Laden
• Spring 2003: US Green Berets Repeatedly Denied Permission to Go After Mullah Omar
• Early 2002: Most of Task Force 5 Elite Force Is Redeployed from Afghanistan to Iraq
• October 2001-April 2002: Pentagon Establishes Secret Unit for Conducting Covert Missions Previously Run by CIA