On September 11th, 2001 a series of four suicide attacks were coordinated to strike locations in New York and Washington D.C. ON that morning 19 terrorists from an Islamist group known as Al-Qaeda hijacked 4 commercial airliners. The hijackers intentionality piloted American airlines flight 11 and United airlines flight 175 into the North and South world trade centers. Within two hours of the Impacts the towers fell. The Hijackers also Piloted American Airline flight 77 into the Pentagon. United airlines was supposed to crash into the capital building, but brave passengers aboard the plane re-took control of the plane but crashed in a field near Shanksville, Pennsylvania.
In 2004 Al-Qaeda's leader Osama Bin Laden, who had intentionally denied involvement, claimed responsibility for the attacks on the world trade centers. The group's reason's for attacking the World Trade Centers was the United States support of Israel, Sanctions against Iraq, and the presence of American soldiers in Saudi Arabia. After 10 years after the attacks Bin laden was killed by an American Navy Seals team in Abbottabad, Pakistan.
The NATO council declared the attacks on the United States were an attack on all NATO nations which satisfied Article 5 of the NATO charter. This marked the first invocation of Article 5, which had been written during the Cold War with an attack by the Soviet Union in mind. On October 7th 2001 the Afghanistan war when US and British forces initiated Ariel bombing runs targeting Al-Qaeda and the Taliban camps, then later invaded the country of Afghanistan using Ground forces and special forces.
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