People found out that they should take over the plane because they found out from loved ones that other terrorists had crashed into buildings. The president was in Florida reading to students. People believed that Al Qaeda attacked us because of our freedom and our religion. They might have also done it because we were pushing on their country, and telling them what to do. They might have done it to hurt our political, economical, and military systems. Once Iraq sent troops into Kuwait, the older President Bush pushed our troops in to push Iraq's troop out. Al Qaeda rose in the 80's. They rose because of the Afghanistan vs Russia war. The US supported Al Qaeda for a while until we started getting involved in their politics. They bombed two US consulate. They bombed a US ship near Yemen. Their biggest, and most deadly attack that they had was on the US on 9/11.
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