It started as a normal morning for all the American people, alarms went off waking people up to go to work, then the perverse plan of the al-Qaeda clan lead by Osama Ben Ladin; took action. Soon the day Americans thought was going to be part of thier routine; turned in to a series of terrorist attacks on the United States. September 11 2001 became one of the most tragic days in American history.
Early in the morning a total of 19 al-Qaeda members hijacked four Americans planes for thier suicide mission. Soon American Airlines flight Boeing 767 hit the north twin tower. All the pasangers including the five hijackers died. Shortly after American Airlines Boeing flight 175 along with 5 al-Qaeda members crashed into the south tower ;also leaving no survivers on board the plane. The third plane crashed into the Pentegon. The fourth plane was on it's way to the white house, but was overtaken by the the passengers on board flight 93. The passengers defeated the 4 hijackers, and took control of the plane. Then plane crashed in a field in Shankesville Pensylvania beofore it reached the white house. On this tragic day nealry three thousand people died. There was a total of two hundred people who jumped of the twin towers trying to escape the smoke and flames.
Why did these people do such a horrible thing? Aparrantly they don't like our way of life and religion, and our freedom. They also didn't like the presence of U.S trrops in Saudi Arabia, and they didn't like the fact that we suported Israel. Is this a good enough reason to come and kill inocent people? In my opinion, No! Every one lives thier own way, and if this people don't like it, they'll have to deal with it.
How did the United States respond? We ofcourse did the most resonable thing; attacked back. The United States attacked Afghinistan were the the al-Qaeda clan had some operarions going on. Our most recent move was killing Osama Bin Ladin the leader of the al-Qaeda clan. The death of this cruel leader doesn't mean it's over. The clan is alot weaker with out it's leader, but it doesn't mean their going to stop attacking. There is also other groups of terrorist out there that want to cause harm to the U.S and other nations.
I can't remember much of what happened that day, becuase i was really young. The only thing I remember is watching the news. My parents were both supper suprised at what was going on. Something I think was really inspiring in all the chaos was the group of people on board flight 93. They did not give in to terrorism, and were the first to fight back.
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