A political map of the situation in Afghanistan on October 1st of 2001, following the September 11 attacks; this map shows the situation in the nation of Afghanistan slightly before Operation Enduring Freedom. The graphics were assembled in QGIS and processed in Inkscape. Made with Natural Earth land data. All data is projected in <a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_Mercator_projection">Web Mercator projection</a>. This map assembles information from a map of CNN created in October 2001, obtained from <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://maps.lib.utexas.edu/maps/afghanistan.html">the available maps in the website for the University of Texas Libraries.</a>
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<span class="int-own-work" lang="en">Own work</span>, based on a <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://edition.cnn.com/SPECIALS/2001/trade.center/afghan.civil.html">map of CNN of the Afghan Civil War in October 2001</a>