The 9/11 attacks in 2001 were horrible.
There were 4 planes. The American Airlines Flight 11 hit the first Twin Tower. it had 92 people aboard including the 5 Arab hijackers. The United Airlines Flight 175 had 65 people aboard including the 5 hijackers and hit the second twin tower. American Airlines Flight 77 hit the Pentagon and had 64 aboard including the 5 hijackers, also Arabian, and the last one, United Airlines Flight 93 with 45 passengers including the hijackers landed in a field in Pennsylvania. The only reason they didn't make it to their destination - which is believed to be the White House - was because the passengers realized something was wrong and they were hijacked in time to try to take over the plane, but crash it.
http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20061008115544AAWFu2K
Al-Qaeda was blamed for the attacks, and in 2004 it was officially declared as Osama bin Laden finally admitted it after years of denial. It wasn't just a random attack as they had motive behind it. The Al-Qaeda and bin Laden didn't like the fact that the US supported Israel, they were upset about our troops located in Saudi Arabia, and upset about our sanctions against Iraq- which is pretty much just us trying to control their government and stop them from trade with the world. George W. Bush declared war shortly after the attacks, making one of our goals to destroy the Taliban because they were like the creators of Al-Qaeda.
There were 2,996 deaths including the hijackers. Most were civilians except the 19 hijackers and 55 military personnel at the Pentagon.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/September_11_attacks
I remember I was in first grade having normal class as always. Then the teachers started freaking out and mine actually turned on the TV to the news and my class watched it. But as I was like only 6 or 7 I didn't really understand what was going on at that time.
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