Raid on Hazar Qadam

On January 24, 2002, the American military launched an overnight raid against a "large munitions cache"[1] north of Kandahar, as part of its invasion of Afghanistan, claiming that it was a weapons stockpile of the Taliban or al-Qaeda. However, it was later discovered that the target was a compound that the United States had asked to collect weapons for the government of Hamid Karzai, and that the dead and captured were all backers of the American invasion.[2][page needed][3][4]

  1. ^ United States Department of Defense (January 25, 2002). "Taliban compound raid yielded large munitions cache". Embassy of the United States, Tel Aviv. Archived from the original on August 31, 2002. Retrieved 27 February 2017.
  2. ^ Stephen Tanner, "Afghanistan: A Military History"
  3. ^ Heintz, Jim (January 25, 2002). "U.S. special forces intensify hunt, seize weapons". The San Bernardino Sun. Associated Press. Retrieved 27 February 2017.
  4. ^ BBC News, 24 January 2002, US troops battle Al Qa'ida militants