The fourth plane crashed into an open field in western Pennsylvania. Some people on that plane started to call friends and family to tell them what was happening. It was believed that the fourth plane was also intended to crash in to the pentagon aswell. The attacks between the towers and the pentagon cost more than 3000 deaths. President Bush announced the U.S intention to fight its own war again against terrorism worldwide.
9/11 2001 affected Americans because it was is the most tragic day in American history. Members of Al Qaudea, hijacked American Air Line’s airplanes, and crashed them into many buildings such as the Twin Towers, the Pentagon, and were possibly going toward the White House. September 11 showed America that we’re not invincible and we need to expect the unexpected, to prepare for the future, and to be ready for anything. Also, fire fighters lost their lives do to the terrorist attack by saving others. Finally, it helped Americans come together and realize that every person in America was affected by the attack.
Many said that the attacks were about religions or something of that sort, but the attacks were about far more than religion. In Osama’s first television debut he mentioned that the U.S. can avoid another attack like the Sep.11 attack if the U.S. stops threatening the security of the Muslims. The U.S. government insists that the motive for the Sep.11 attack was because of the U.S. support of Israel, the presence of U.S. troops in Saudi Arabia, and sanctions against Iraq. The President at the time, which was George Bush called for a “War on Terror” that would continue until all of the terrorists groups had been found, captured, and defeated to prevent attacks like this in the future. In this interview Bin Laden said he order the Sep 11 attack because of injustices against the Lebanese and Palestinians by
9/11 Attacks On the Tuesday morning of September 11, 2001 we faced a devastating attack from Al Qaeda. Osama bin Laden was the leader during the time and many years afterwards. He was believed to be the leader of the Al Qaeda network and would be hunted down for ten years after these events. Just weeks before the dreadful day of 9/11 a group of Islamic Terrorists came in to the country looking like normal U.S. citizens. They took the first 2 weeks to learn how to fly air planes so they could high jack them and carry out their mission.
At the Seattle-Tacoma Airport, in Tacoma, Washington, he released thirty-six passengers and two crew members once his demands were met (Pasternak). After taking off again Cooper ordered the plane to fly at a low altitude towards Mexico. At 8:13pm pressure gauges recorded his jump over the Lewis River from 10,000ft into a thunderstorm with over a hundred mile per hour winds and negative temperatures wearing only a thin suit, wrap-around sunglasses, and a rain coat (Brad Meltzer's Decoded). Many people believe that this was a suicidal jump and that Cooper died that night (Mysterious Disappearances in U.S. History). A reporting error in this high interest case mixed up his name forever immortalizing him as D.B.
Ng 1 Eva Ng Parada U.S. history Period 1 May 31, 2013 Effects of 9/11 Osama bin Laden was the leader of alQaeda. He planned the terrorist attack in New York City and the Washington, D.C. area. Four airliners were hijacked by alQaeda terrorist. Two of the planes hit the World Trade Center, causing it to collapse. The third plane hit the western side of the Pentagon, and the fourth plane was targeted at the U.S. capitol, but it crashed into a nearby field.
The Jets caused large fires and damage to the lower levels, which theorists claim is impossible, but the jet fuel went down the elevator shaft causing an explosion (Dunbar38). The kerosene from the airplanes jet fuel couldn’t cause enough heat in the fire to melt the building, steel melts at 1,510 degrees Celsius and kerosene can only burn at 1,100 to 1,200 degrees Celsius, implying that there were bombs planted in the towers, but the heat was just hot enough to loosen the steel (Dunbar37). When the two buildings collapsed, they collapsed at a higher rate than usual and there wasn’t a delay in the towers falling (Mondics). As the building dropped it was very smooth, symmetrical, and straight down. Most buildings with a huge gaping whole would have leaned and fell over (“Blaskiewicz”).
The buildings went up in flames as people attempted to flee from the ash, steel, glass, and bodies falling from above. Both buildings, which took a total of eight years to construct, collapsed in less than 90 minutes. That same morning, at 9:37, a third plane crashed into the Pentagon, just outside of Washington. Then, at 10:03, the fourth and final plane crashed into a field in southern Pennsylvania. (National Commission on Terrorist Attacks upon the United States) The hijackers on this plane intended to slam into The White House, but heroic passengers managed
September 11, 2001, is a date in which will be remembered in the minds of Americans forever. Four commercial airlines were hijacked. The hijackers intentionally crashed two of the airliners World Trade Center in New York City, killing everyone on board and many others working in the building, and also killing an estimated 343 firefighters. The hijackers also crashed a third airliner into the Pentagon. The fourth plane crashed into a field near Shanksville in rural Somerset County, Pennsylvania, after some of its passengers and flight crew were said to attempt to retake control of the plane.
base in northern Afghanistan. The mission, approved by President Obama on Friday, had been set for early Sunday local time but had to be delayed because of poor weather. Unlike 1980's doomed mission to rescue the American diplomats held hostage in Iran, by all accounts, the strike on bin Laden's fortress in Abbott bad went smoothly. Navy Seal Team 6 which reportedly played the key role in the assault was created following the disaster that left eight Americans dead at Desert One. About two dozen Seals and CIA enablers swooped down on the compound in a pair of choppers, leaving the second pair lurking nearby in case they were needed.