9/11

1.Explain what happen that day.

On September 11, 2001. 19 Hijackers from Al-Qaeda took over four America airplanes that were supposed to be going to  San Francisco and Los Angeles. At 8:46 a.m  American Airlines 11crashed into the North Tower.  At 9:03 a.m United Airlines 175 crashed into the South Tower.  American Airlines 77 crashed into the Pentagon at 9:37 a.m. A fourth flight United Airlines 93 crashed near Shanksville, Pennsylvania at 10:03 a.m. The reason it crashed in Shanksville  is because the people on the plane fought back because the already new about  the planes that  crashed into the World Trade Center from the phone that were in the plane. Flight 93 was supposed to crash into the capital or the White House. At 9:59 am the south tower of the World Trade Center stared to collapse. At 10:15 am the E ring of the Pentagon collapse. At 10:28 am the north tower of the World Trade Center. The U.S. order for the airspace to be cleared. At 12:19 the whole airspace was cleared. The total deaths for this was 2,996 people were killed in all of this.

 

 

2. What do you remember that day?

What i remember from that day is that when i came home from school that day and the t.v was on but it wasn't cartoons on the cartoon channel.

 

 

 

 

3. Who was responsible for the attack and why did they do this?

 Al-Qaeda was responsible for the attack under the leader of Osama bin Laden. They were Islamic people did not like Americana's and how they did stuff.

 

 

 

4. What did the US do in response to the attack?

We went to war with Afghanistan and went on the hunt for Al-Qaeda  people and Osama bin Laden. People that were for Al-Qaeda were killed or put in jail. In 2011 Osama Bin Laden was killed by US troops. They took his body out into the deep ocean and sunk his body so no one could praise him. 

 

 


 

 

http://http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/September_11_attacks

http://http://timeline.national911memorial.org/#/Explore/2

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  • Some of the answers are a bit brief-otherwise good.
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