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    The 1933 World Trade Center Bombing was a terrorist attack on the World Trade Center, carried out on February 26, 1993, when a truck bomb exploded below the North Tower of the World Trade Center in New York City. Six suspects carried out this bombing that killed six people and injured more than 1000 people. Ramzi Yousef was one of the main perpetrators of this 1993 bombing. His reasoning behind it was to get back at the United States for aiding Israel and making the Palestinian people suffer. The

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    Attacks On September 11th, 2001, the worst terror attack on US soil took place. 19 people associated with the Islamic extremist group al-Qaeda took 4 airplanes and carried out suicide to kill people in the United States. Two of the planes hit the World Trade Center, another plan hit the pentagon just outside Washington, D.C, and the fourth plane crashed in a field in Pennsylvania. These attacks caused massive destruction, forcing the U.S to combat terrorism and “defining the presidency of George W. Bush”

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    crashed them into the Pentagon and New York's Twin Towers, whereupon the crisis led to the collapse of the Twin Towers. Truthers primarily focus on missed information that isn't explained in the official NIST theory, such as the collapse of World Trade Center 7. They suggest a cover-up and, at the least, complicity by insiders.They analyze evidence from the attacks, discuss different theories about how the attacks happened and call for a new investigation into the attacks..CharacteristicsName"9/11

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    The original World Trade Center, constructed between 1975 and 1985, was a complex of seven buildings occupying a 16 block area in Lower Manhattan. At the heart of the World Trade Center (WTC) stood 1 WTC and 2 WTC, also known as the Twin Towers. These towers occupied nearly an acre each and stood 110 stories high. When completed, 1 WTC was the tallest building in the world. The Twin Towers stood as a symbol of America’s power in the global economy. Because of this, the World Trade Center was a massive

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    On a quiet Tuesday morning at 8:45 September 11, 2001, a 767 was fully loaded and ready for departure. When an Islamic extremist group called Al-Qaeda, hijacked the plane and crashed into on of the World Trade Center Towers. On the 80th story of a 110 story building. It instantly killed all in the plane and many in the tower. 18 short minutes later another 757 United Airline disappeared into the second building. This plane crashed into the south side of the second building on the 60th floor killing

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    9/11 What "they" don't want you to know… I. Introduction a. Where could the US Government have ever gotten the idea for the terrorist attacks of 9/11 i. 12/7/42, Japan attacks Pearl Harbor, historians suggest the US Government had fair warning of the attacks and instructed US Military at Pearl Harbor to "let it happen on purpose", thus giving the U.S. a reason to enter the war. ii. 10/17/62, after the failed "Bay of Pigs" invasion, the US Government was looking for another way to stage an attack

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    Airlines. The first hijacked aircraft to take-off, American Airlines Flight 11, was boarded by five hijackers: Mohammed Atta (a trained pilot and ringleader of the attacks), Abdulaziz al-Omari, Waleed al-Shehri, Wail al-Shehri, and Satam al-Suqami. At 7:59 a.m., Flight 11, holding 81 passengers (including the hijackers) and 11 crew members, takes off from Logan International Airport runway 4R, bound for Los Angeles International Airport. Nearly 15 minutes later, the second hijacked aircraft, United

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    The most prominent incident during 9/11 is the demolition of the World Trade Centers. On September 11, 2001, an American Airlines Boeing 767 crashed into the north tower of the World Trade Center filled with 20,000 gallons of jet fuel. After impact, hundreds of innocent civilians and workers died instantly (statisticbrain.com). 18 minutes later, another Boeing pierced the 60th floor of the south tower (statisticbrain.com). Massive explosions took place within the towers due to the burning jet fuel

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    Why I Don 't Think?

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    government act, saying that Bush set it all up to make a good excuse to go to war with the terrorists mostly for oil purposes. Many people to this day don’t know what to believe. The Pentagon crash, the Pennsylvania crash, and the World Trade Center buildings 1, 2, and 7’s collapse: It’s a lot to cover up if it was in fact a government act. It was impossible for the government to make and cover up a “False Flag Operation,” and that there is no conspiracy behind it at all. There

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    September 11 2001, will be a date remembered in history for years to come. On this day the lives of every American changed forever. We witnessed an terrorist attack unforeseen ever before, and the aftermath would change the country and the world forever. Despite only being 14 years, 9/11 has changed our lives and will continue to do so for the foreseeable future. Such an event definitely ranks itself as a turning point for American history. On the morning of September 11, 2001, 19 hijackers took

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