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Team Alpha, Part 1/2: The Tip of the Spear | CIA

True Spies: Espionage | Investigation | Crime | Murder | Detective | Politics

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Al-Qaeda and the Northern Alliance Converged on September 11th 2001

Before September the 11th, 2001, Al-Qaeda hadn't managed to stage an attack on American soil. But they had already targeted the US elsewhere in the world. The Pentagon didn't have a plan for how to respond. Kofa Black's concept of small teams of eight or so Americans would go into Afghanistan and fight alongside the indigenous resistance.

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