Over the years, terrorists have claimed
thousands of innocent lives in the pursuit of their dark objectives. The worst and
deadliest of all was taken place 18 years ago, today.
The September 11 attacks, or 9.11, were a
series of four coordinated terrorist attacks by the Islamic terrorist group
al-Qaeda against the United States on the morning of Tuesday, September 11,
2001. The attacks killed nearly 3,000 and injured over 6,000 others.
Four passenger airliners that departed from
New York or Boston were hijacked by 19 al-Qaeda terrorists.
Two of the planes were crashed into the North
and South towers of the World Trade Center complex in Lower Manhattan, New
York. Within an hour and 42 minutes, both 110-story towers collapsed.
A third plane was crashed into the Pentagon,
the headquarters of the U.S. Department of Defense.
The fourth plane was initially flown toward
Washington, D.C., but crashed into a field in Pennsylvania after its passengers
prevented the hijackers from piloting the aircraft.
9/11 is the single deadliest terrorist attack
in human history.
The United States responded by launching the
War on Terror and invading Afghanistan to depose the Taliban, which had failed
to comply with the U.S. demands to hand over Osama bin Laden, the mastermind of
9.11 and expel al-Qaeda from Afghanistan.
Read about the worst terrorist attack and remember
the victims.
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