September11 attacks Ms. Kristi

One of the most important event that happened in the past decade was September11,2001
attacks.
The Septmber11 attacks were a series of coordinated attacks by al-Qaeda upon the United
States on September11,2001. On that morning, 19 al-Qaeda terrorists hijacked four commercil
passenger jet airliner. the hijackers intentionally crashed two of the airliners into the Twin Towers of the World Trade center in New York City, killing everyone on board and many others
working in the buildings.
Both buildings collapsed within two hours, destroying nearby buildings and damaging others.
The hijackers crashed a third airliner into the Pentagon in Arlington Arlington, Virginia, just outside Washington, D,C . The fourth plane crashed into a field nea Shanksville in rural Pennsylvania after some of its passegers and flight crew attempted to retake control of the plane, which the hijackers had redirected toward Washington,D,C . There were no survivors from any of the flights.
The death toll of the attacks was 2,995, including the hijackers. The United State responded
to the attacks by launching the war on Terrorsim. It inaded Afghanistan to depose the Taliban, who had harbored al-Qaeda terrorists.


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