Assigned Blog #2

9/11 was a series of four attack on the U.S. that affected all of our lives. On tuesday Sepember 11th 19 al-qaeda terrorist hijacked four commercial passanger jets that inclueded American Airlines flights 11 and 77 and United Airlines flights 175 and 93. Flights 11 and 175 were flew to New york afer being hijacked to crash in to the north and south towers of the world trade center. Flights 77 and 93 targets were the pentagon and the Capitol building. The first plane to crash was flight 11 of AMerican Airlines and it crashed in to the north tower of the world trade center at 8:46am and was first belived to be an accident. It wasn't until flight 175 for United airlines crashed into the south tower at 9:03am that we realized it was an act of terrorism. Soon after the palnes crashed in New york flight 77 of American Airlines ran into the Pentagon at 9:37am. The fourth plane however never made itto the intende target of the capitol building and crashed in a field near Shnaksville, Pennsylvania at 10:03am because the passengers rebeled aginst the hijackers, The attacks resulted in 2,996 deaths. It happen because al-Qaeda was trying to change the Muslim world after their extreme vision of it, and the United States supports several Muslim populated countries that stand in their way of completing this.So they pretty much wanted to hurt us to get at our allies. these events effected our counrty in many ways suchas we eventually went to war in afganistan in search of al-qaeda members and it heavily influenced the amount of security at airports.

<--this is a picture of the tribute lights on Sept. 11, 2011 and the building that is lit up red, white, and blue is the new world trade center while it's still under construction. 

 

 

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