Early morning of 9/11/01, 19 hijackers hijacked four commercial planes. At 8:46 am, American Airlines Flight 11 was crashed into the World Trade Center's North Tower. Which was soon followed by United Airlines Flight 175 that hit the South Tower at 9:03 am.
Another group of phycos flew American Airlines Flight 77 into the Pentagon at 9:37 am. A fourth flight of would-be hijackers on United Airlines Flight 93 crashed near Shanksville, Pennsylvania at 10:03 am. They missed their target, the Capitol not the White House, because of a heroic uprising by the passengers.
Some people in the know, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and Ramzi Binalshibh, said that al-Qaeda initially planned to fly the hijacked jets into nuclear installations rather that than the World Trade Center and the Pentagon. They apparently decided not to "for the moment" because they fear it could 'get out of control".
Now I'd just like to take a moment to expand on that. They were going to hit and blow up a nuclear installation. Nuclear. And they're still planning to. Below is a map of all their potential nuclear targets-
If they did that, it would be like Chernobyl. Not only would anyone nearby die, but the radioactive fallout, basically a giant cloud of nuclear 'stuff', would spread all over the country. In Russia, they could relocate relatively easy since they had somewhere to go. We would have to leave the continent. And it wouldn't just be the people right then and there dying, thousands would die later due to higher cancer risk and acute radiation syndrome.
There seems to be a shocking amount of thought that went into the 9-11 attack. Impressive for the hooligans that they are. Heedless to day, is was not Osama bin Laden who came up with the idea, but rather one of his more prominent henchmen.
Moving on, on that particular day I was in first grade. I think that perhaps the principal announced it or the teachers said something. As I was only seven at the time a lot of it went over my head. So really I have no relocation of it at all. It was simply a normal day to me.
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