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September 11 attacks
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Bottom row:
Flicht 77
's collision wi the
Pentagon as capturt bi three
consecutive
CCTV
frames.
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Location
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Date
| September 11, 2001
; 22 years ago
(
2001-09-11
)
8:46 a.m. ? 10:28 a.m.
(
EDT
)
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Target
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Attack teep
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Daiths
| 2,996
(2,977 victims + 19 hijackers)
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Non-fatal injures
| 6,000+
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Perpetrators
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The
11t September attacks
, aften cried
9-11
juist, wis attacks on the
Unitit States
bi
Islamic
terrorists on
11t September
2001
. Twa hijackit aeroplanes wis flewn intae the
World Trade Center
, collapsin its twa touers an causin the daiths o aboot 2500 fowk, forby the fowk on the aeroplanes thairsels, aboot five hunner mair. Anither aeroplane wis flewn intae
the Pentagon
, killin 125 fowk. A fowert plane wis on coorse for the
White Hoose
in
Washington D.C.
Houaniver, the passengers in thon plane attackit the hijackers, causin the plane tae crash-laund afore it reached its intendit tairget.
Acause o thir attacks,
Preses
George W. Bush
decidit tae hae Americae lench a
warld wide war agin terrorism
. At the time
al-Qaeda
, the fowk ahint the attacks, wis operatin oot o
Afghanistan
that wis unner the owerins o the
Taliban
. George Bush invadit Afghanistan for tae pit the branks on al-Qaeda an the Taliban.
- ↑
"Bin Laden claims responsibility for 9/11"
. CBC News. 29 October 2004
. Retrieved
1 September
2011
.
Al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden appeared in a new message aired on an Arabic TV station Friday night, for the first time claiming direct responsibility for the 2001 attacks against the United States.