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2001 LIFE

A tank escorts civilians through the dusty desert
JAMES NACHTWEY, VII FOR TIME

"I knew we'd beat the Talibs, but I never thought it would be this easy."
A Northern Alliance armored-unit commander, of his shock when the Taliban's troops and tanks fled city after city

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