September 11,2001

On September 11,2001 19 Al-Qaeda terrorists hijacked four airlines and carried out suicide against targets in the U.S. all 19 coordinators died, crashing two planes into the twin towers of the world trade centers in the new York city, another plane crashed into the pentagon in Virginia and the fourth and final plane into a field in Pennsylvania.

The Islamic attackers were terrorists from Saudi Arabia and other Arab nations. They were apart of Osama bin laden’s al-quida terrorist organization. Some of the terrorists lived in America for more than a year and taken flying lessons at American commercial flight schools. And others slipped into the country several months before September 11.the terrorists easily got knives and box cutters through security at the three different east coast airports they’d chosen. They boarded planes going for the California, because the amount of fuel needed for the long journey and easily took over four planes.

On that morning at eight forty five a.m. on American airlines bowing 707 crashed into the north tower of the world trade center hit the 80th floor of the 11- storey building, killing and trapping hundreds of people. (www.history.com) The building immediately started getting evacuated and at that time everyone thought it was an accident. Unit eighteen minutes later, a second plane appeared in the south tower and hit near the 60th floor. This caused a huge explosion that spread debris into the streets and over the surrounding buildings. This was clearly no accident America was under attack.

While millions were wrapped up in the twin towers, another plane American airline flight number seventy seven was in down town Washington D.C. and crashed into the south side. Of the pentagon military head quarters at nine forty five a.m. Burning jet fuel from the crash led to a structural collapse of the giant convert building. One hundred and twenty five militant personal were killed. About fifteen minutes later after the pentagon was attacked, the south tower in NYC collapsed. The structure steel of the skyscraper was built to withstand the heat generated by burning jet fuel. At ten thirty a.m. The other trade center tower collapsed and close to three thousand people died including three hundred forty three fire fighters 23 NYC police officers, 37 port authority officers. Only 6 people in the world trade center towers when they collapsed and almost ten thousand others were treated fir injures, many of them where server and because the plane was delayed in taking off, passengers on board already D.