This chapter focuses on the “war against terrorism” as it has been fought by the United States and its allies in Afghanistan and Iraq. After the September 11, 2001 attacks on the World Trade Center in New York City and the Pentagon in Virginia, USA, widely believed to have been orchestrated by al-Qaeda, whose mastermind was Osama bin Ladin, there became a question of how the United States government should respond to the attacks. On September 12, 2001, Cardinal Theodore McCarrick, the Catholic Archbishop of Washington, presided over a mass during which he asked congregants to seek the guilty but refrain from striking out against the innocent. The USA invaded Afghanistan on October 7, 2001. The rationale was that the Taliban, rulers of Afghanistan, were harboring Osama bin Ladin and other al-Qaeda members and not cooperating with US requests to hand them over. The Taliban, for their part, complained that the US officials had not shown them the evidence linking bin Ladin and the...
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Presbey, G.M. (2011). Afghanistan and Iraq Wars. In: Chatterjee, D.K. (eds) Encyclopedia of Global Justice. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4020-9160-5_747
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