The September 11, 2001 event happened at about 8:30 am were about 19 terrorist from the Taliban an al-Qaeda Islamic group, hijacked two American Airlines Boeing 767 flights 11 and flight 175 and crashed them into the Twin Towers in New York City. In Washington, at about 9:45am, hijackers crashed a Boeing 757 Jet into the Pentagon in Arlington Virginia killing about 125 military personnel and civilians. At about 10:10 AM hijackers tried to hijack United Airlines flight 93 leaving the Newark International Airport bound to California, but unsuccessful because the passengers fought the hijacker’s, and the plane crashed in a filed in Pennsylvania killing everyone
19 Al-Qaeda terrorists hijacked four commercial passenger jet airliners. The hijackers intentionally crashed two of the airliners into the Twin Towers, killing everyone on board and many others working in the buildings. Both towers collapsed within two hours, destroying nearby buildings and damaging others on their
I think that you have to look at the nature and the timing of the attacks in Oklahoma City and the first world trade center bombing to really determine why the DHS was formed after the attacks. The United States never really had a large-scale attack on US soil except for the attack on Pearl Harbor. The attacks though Oklahoma City and the world trade center were horrible, but they weren’t on such a large scale as the 9/11 attacks. Timothy McVeigh and a small group of extremist came up with the idea to blow up the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in downtown Oklahoma City, because they incidents that happened two years earlier in Waco, Texas (FBI, 2013). I think that this attack didn’t cause a dramatic effect as 9/11 because the thought was that Mr. McVeigh acted alone and he was an American so nobody thought that there was a need for a forming of an agency such as the Department of Homeland Security.
The attack was labeled "the most lethal terrorism in human experience." Also, 9-11 was by far the worst terrorist attack on American siol. This attack took a lot of planning, many say it was "strategically planned" meaning they had everything very organized & in order. Not only was it very well planned, also the terrorists had arranged for the planes to crash into specific locations such as: the Twin Towers, the White House, & the Pentagon building in D.C. Approximately 3,000 lives were sadly lost during this horrible attack.
The September 11 attacks were a series of four coordinated terrorist attacks launched by the Islamic terrorist group al-Qaeda upon the United States in New York City and the Washington, D.C. metropolitan area on Tuesday, September 11, 2001. Four passenger airliners were hijacked by 19 al-Qaeda terrorists so they could be flown into buildings in suicide attacks. Two of those planes, American Airlines Flight 11 and United Airlines Flight 175, were crashed into the North and South towers, respectively, of the World Trade Center complex in New York City. Within two hours, both towers collapsed with debris and the resulting fires causing partial or complete collapse of all other buildings in the WTC complex, as well as significant damage to ten other large surrounding structures. A third plane, American Airlines Flight 77, was crashed into the Pentagon, leading to a partial collapse in its western side.
9/11 Assignment Section One The bombing of the World Trade Center September 11th, 2001 shouldn’t have come as a surprise to the American people and its officials because of previous events leading up to 9/11. One event was when the FBI and Philippine police failed to communicate with one another after in a Philippines hotel the police captured Abdul Sheikh Murad and seized Ramzi Yousef’s laptop that contained plans to bomb major landmarks around the world, including the World Trade Center. In 1993 Ramzi Yousef detonates a truck bomb in the parking lot underneath the World Trade Center and killed six people. Later in 2000 military in Tampa, Florida ran a list of known terrorist and found Muhammad Atta and Al-Shehhi who were at the airport but wasn’t stop because they both had good U.S. Visas.
Williams, conveys conflicting perspectives about the September 11 attack by terrorists on the Pentagon. The slideshow depicts the 9/11 attacks on the United States America building pentagon. The slideshow starts of with a few known facts “ 9.38am....American Airlines flight 77...flew into the Pentagon”. It then goes to the perspective of who could see the damage “hole in pentagon and no Boeing 757” and a image in the background with arrows pointing to undamaged spools of wire and windows intact after the impact which someone would consider not normal if a plane crashes into a building. Providing a numerous amounts of eye witness accounts of the crash Williams deliberately builds the argument that there is a possibility that it was not a plane
Most people have become more aware of terrorism, since September 11th 2001, on this date members of the al-Qaeda terrorist group managed to hijack American Airlines Flight 11 and drive it into the World Trade Center, located in New York City. The attack caused 2,819 people to die; some were working in the towers, some were just very unlucky and happened to be in the wrong place at the wrong time, and also some of the emergency personnel died that day trying to rescue others (www.nymag.com). There were a few other attacks that day, each one killing more innocent people. These horrible acts of terrorism caused the United States to go into panic mode. Americans evacuated buildings, shut down airports, and rushed to see their loved ones because they were terrified of what might happen next .
The attacks by Al Qaeda on September 11th were co-ordinated and calculated they hit the heart of capitalism and also the Pentagon another plane was ditched in a field in Pennsylvania which may have been heading for Washington D.C. almost three thousand people from many different countries were killed that day so the effects were felt world-wide. The response to this was the ongoing “War on Terror” with the deposition of the Taliban being the goal. Thirteen years later troops are still in Afghanistan and Iraq from both America and Britain although they are beginning to withdraw. Before the attacks of September 11th music had been used for protest there
Two of the planes were flown into the towers of the World Trade Center in New York City, while the third plane soared into the Pentagon just outside of Washington, D.C., along with the last plane crashed in a field in Pennsylvania ("History.com," 2011). In this attack, more than three thousand people died and extensive destruction. Various people lost their lives due to being in the wrong place at the wrong time and risking their lives to save others. Many citizens reacted out of anger, fear, and insecurity to this unexpected situation. People began to question how safe the United State really is, which brought the attention to our Congress and the