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A Day That Shook The World: The battle of Tora Bora

Tuesday 07 December 2010 01:00 GMT
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On 7 December 2001 the US and allied forces started what came to be known as the Battle of Tora Bora, a crucial conflict at the onset of the war in Afghanistan, believing that Osama Bin Laden was hiding in a mountain cave fortress.

Find out more from a British Pathe newsreel with footage of the bombings and commentary from nine years ago:

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