11 September attacks

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September 11 attacks

Location
Date September 11, 2001 ; 22 years ago  ( 2001-09-11 )
8:46 a.m. ? 10:28 a.m. ( EDT )
Target
Attack teep
Daiths 2,996    (2,977 victims + 19 hijackers)
Non-fatal injures
6,000+
Perpetrators

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.

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  1. "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.