Afghanistan War News Updates -- September 11, 2012

A U.S. soldier organizes unstable ordnance for destruction at the demolition range on Forward Operating Base Salerno in Afghanistan's Khost province, Sept. 2, 2012. U.S. Army photo by Sgt. Kimberly Trumbull

9/11 Anniversary: Taliban Claim US Face 'Utter Defeat' In Afghanistan -- The Telegraph

US forces face "utter defeat" in Afghanistan and Americans are unsafe wherever they go in the world, the Taliban said ahead of the anniversary of the September 11, 2001 terror attacks.

Eleven years ago on Tuesday, almost 3,000 people lost their lives in the worst terror strike on American soil that saw two passenger planes hijacked by al-Qaeda slam into New York's World Trade Center and another into the Pentagon. A fourth plane crashed in a Pennsylvania field.

What followed was a war in Afghanistan, launched over the Taliban's alliance with al-Qaeda.

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