On September 11, 2001 nineteen Al-Qaeda members took over four American jet planes and intentionally crashed two of them into the Twin Towers, one into the Pentagon, and one who was intended to hit the White House landed in a field in Shanksville, Pennsylvania. Both of the Twin Towers collapsed within two hours after the attack. Osama Bin Laden was immediately suspected as the leader behind the attacks, who first denied any involvement, but later admitted to being the master mind behind it all. Almost 3,000 people end up dying because of these attacks.
Who could ever be responsible for something so terrible? Well the answer came as expected to the United States. The group of people that attacked were the terrorist group known as Al-Qaeda. The main leader of this group was Osama Bin Laden. Osama denied involvement in the attacks at first, but later US forces received tapes of Osama blatantly declaring that he was the one who thought of it all. The tapes also had a clip in it of Bin Laden stating that the reason he did this is because we undermine his security so he would undermine ours also. Another video made showed Osama with three of the plane hijackers preparing for the attacks. As a result, Osama BIn Laden was killed by US Navy Seals on May 1, 2011 in his hide out in Pakistan. Several times before and after the attacks, Bin Laden released statements claiming the reason for these attacks were because of three reasons: US troops being in Saudi Arabia, the US supporting Israel, and the US's sanctions against Iraq.
The aftermath of these attacks was awful on America as a whole. For the first time ever, SCATANA issued and ATC zero condiotn which means that all flights, with the exception to emergency flights, coming to and from America, Canada, and several other countries were called off. NATO stated that an attack on the United States was like an attack on all NATO countries as a whole. In October 2011 American and British forces raided Taliban and Al-Qeada camps and issued and aeriel attack. Later, we raided these places by ground and took over.
What I remember from 9/11 is very faint because I was only in Kindergarten. However, what I do remember is our principal coming into our room and telling the teacher to turn the tv on and watch the events happening. I think these attacks were easily one of the most important, yet awful, days in our countries history. I think for the whole country it will be a day remembered forever.
Who could ever be responsible for something so terrible? Well the answer came as expected to the United States. The group of people that attacked were the terrorist group known as Al-Qaeda. The main leader of this group was Osama Bin Laden. Osama denied involvement in the attacks at first, but later US forces received tapes of Osama blatantly declaring that he was the one who thought of it all. The tapes also had a clip in it of Bin Laden stating that the reason he did this is because we undermine his security so he would undermine ours also. Another video made showed Osama with three of the plane hijackers preparing for the attacks. As a result, Osama BIn Laden was killed by US Navy Seals on May 1, 2011 in his hide out in Pakistan. Several times before and after the attacks, Bin Laden released statements claiming the reason for these attacks were because of three reasons: US troops being in Saudi Arabia, the US supporting Israel, and the US's sanctions against Iraq.
The aftermath of these attacks was awful on America as a whole. For the first time ever, SCATANA issued and ATC zero condiotn which means that all flights, with the exception to emergency flights, coming to and from America, Canada, and several other countries were called off. NATO stated that an attack on the United States was like an attack on all NATO countries as a whole. In October 2011 American and British forces raided Taliban and Al-Qeada camps and issued and aeriel attack. Later, we raided these places by ground and took over.
What I remember from 9/11 is very faint because I was only in Kindergarten. However, what I do remember is our principal coming into our room and telling the teacher to turn the tv on and watch the events happening. I think these attacks were easily one of the most important, yet awful, days in our countries history. I think for the whole country it will be a day remembered forever.
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