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]}