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Events relating to asia
US and UK forces launch military action against Taliban and al-Qaeda forces in Afghanistan
US President George W. Bush revives bitter memories in the Middle East when he describes the war on terrorism as a 'crusade'
The Northern Alliance, the army of the Afghan resistance to the Taliban, drives the Taliban from Kabul
A month after the fall of Kabul, the Northern Alliance drives the Taliban from their power base in Kandahar
The US-led invasion of Afghanistan sweeps the Taliban from power, ending their protection of al-Qaeda
Terrorists detonate bombs in two crowded nightclubs in the Bali resort of Kuta, killing 202 people
In spite of a massive military operation, the terrorist leader Osama bin Laden escapes US pursuit in Afghanistan
Afghan aristocrat and politician Hamid Karzai heads an interim government in his country
The historic city of Bam, in Iran, is destroyed in a massive earthquake, with more than 40,000 deaths
A deadly new form of pneumonia, SARS (Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome) is first reported in Hanoi and soon spreads globally
Hu Jintao succeeds Jiang Zemin as president of the People's Republic of China
US, British, Australian and Polish forces invade Iraq
US forces are in control of Baghdad and an excited crowd topples from its plinth a massive statue of Saddam Hussein
President Bush prematurely celebrates his Iraq achievement with a speech on a US aircraft carrier in front of a banner declaring 'Mission Accomplished'
Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein is found hiding in a subterranean hole in a farmyard near Tikrit
Abuses in the US military prison at Abu Ghraib in Iraq are revealed on US television
Palestinian president Yasser Arafat dies in a hospital near Paris
Hamid Karzai becomes the first democratically elected president of Afghanistan
A massive earthquake under the Indian Ocean triggers a tsunami that kills nearly 200,000 people
Mahmoud Abbas is elected president of the Palestinian Authority, following the death of Yasser Arafat
Lebanon's former prime minister Rafik Hariri is killed when a massive bomb is detonated as his car passes in Beirut
Following local and international pressure after the death of Rafik Hariri, Syria withdraws the last of its troops from Lebanon
Fundamentalist politician Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is elected president of Iran
Israel uses force to remove settlers who refuse to leave Gaza in accordance with Sharon's unilateral disengagement plan
Just three years after the first attack, suicide bombers kill more than 25 people in the same Balinese town of Kuta
