Blog Discussion
- 9/11
- Two planes hit the twin towers
- One hit the Pentagon
- One plane was aimed for DC but the passengers fought the terrorists
- 3,000 people died
- 15 hijackers from Saudi Arabia
- 5 from UAE
- 1 from Egypt
- What Bush was doing
- In Florida
- Amity Booker Elementary
- Wanting to push his education agenda
- Criticized for not leaving
- Why it happened
- Religion
- Had been going on for centuries
- Jihad
- Americans puts their hands on everything
- Russia provided Afghanistan with money and weapons
- Eventually led to Al Qaeda and the Taliban
- Iraq invasion of Kuwait
- Americans invaded Kuwait to free it in 1991
- Heavy presence in Middle East since
- Middle East claims Americans are there to "take over"
- Religion
- Impact on the US
- Thrown into chaos
- First reaction: go to war with Afghanistan
- One month later: first military action
- Rebuilding DC
- Most people wanted to take action against Afghanistan
- Brought European support
- Security
- Search American property
- HUGE airport security buff
- Department of Homeland Security
- Border security
- Stock market tumble
- Gas price increases
- Rise and Fall of Al Qaeda
- 1988: bin Laden formed Al Qaeda
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