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    generations to come. In the early hours of a calm Tuesday morning business was flowing as usual. The World Trade Center symbolized power and wealth of America, leading it to be the most prominent target to hit in order to cause deadly destruction. An eyewitness of the event, Ed Hashey described the first explosion that took place. He states, “Before you knew it, it was 8:40 a.m. and I was at the World Trade Center station at Cortland Street. I got off the train, walked up to the street exit, and right as

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    Economic Impact of Terrorism Micheal Bonnett Govt/480 December 8, 2014 Thomas Brown Abstract The impact on the economy from terrorist attacks affects everyone in our country and ones we do trade with on a daily bases. When terrorist attack countries they are trying to disrupt the economy and excite fear in as many people as possible to meet the needs of what the terrorist group is looking to achieve. Without a definitive definition on what terrorism is it will continue to adapt and

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    in and out of the World Trade Center. Millions of the people were in morning rush hour on their way from their homes to work. The World Trade Center was a symbol of U.S. power and financial strength, but that was about to change. A few minutes after 9:00 a.m., the sky was not sunny and clear as it had just been minutes before. There was smoke, dust, and debris everywhere. Two jet airplanes, hijacked by religious terrorists, crashed into the twin towers of the World Trade Center and blowup. The impact

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    of them into New York City’s World Trade Center, destroying its twin towers and killing more than 2,900 people.”2 September 11th 2001 at 8:45 in the morning, a high jacked commercial airplane crashed into the 80th floor of North Tower of the World Trade Towers instantly killing hundreds of people and trapping even more people in the floors above the crash.3 Then less than 20 minutes later a second airplane crashed into the 60th floor of the South Tower of the World Trade Towers.4 The second airplane

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    Research Paper On 9-11

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    were affected by the actions of which created it. There are so many problems in the world and nine-eleven was one of the worst ones because there were many casualties, horrible attackers, and it was such a mess! ZOOM! BAM! CRASH! The Twin Towers have just been hit! Run for cover! “They were the tallest buildings in New York City, and for a brief period upon their completion, they were the tallest buildings in the world.”

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    Actually, I believe they did. In August 1997, on the front cover of FEMA’s, The Federal Emergency Management Agency, Emergency Response to Terrorism Manual it shows the World Trade Center towers in the cross hairs, sights used for aiming a gun or missile for accuracy, and then again in June 2000, the Department of Justice released a world

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    9/11 Attacks

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    shut off the plane’s transponders. Traffic control had to search for the missing planes and at that time they didn't know why the planes went missing. Another contradicting issue is the collapse of World Trade Center Building 7. According to theorists, the U.S. Government wanted to destroy Building 7 to hide evidence of their involvement in 9/11. They argue the different tenants in the building, had had information and proof of what actually happened. However, the collapse was due to the debris and

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    arisen to learn and improve the design of future tall buildings against fire-induced collapse. The building we build inspires us and reflects on who we are. The collapse of the World Trade Center buildings on September 11, 2001, was the "Black Day "in American History. The terrorist attack on the world trade center on September 11, 2001, was

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    the four planes, the terrorists forcefully redirected each of the planes off course to an unknown destination. American Airlines flight 11 flew right into the U.S. World Trade Center’s North Tower at 8:45am, causing it to immediately burst into flames. Only sixteen and a half minutes later, United Airlines flight 175 hit the World Trade Center’s South Tower. Firefighters and policemen fled to the horrible destruction site called ground zero. The third plane, American Airlines flight 77, sped towards

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    The official story of 9/11 is a conspiracy theory in that the government claims 19 hijackers conspired together to hijack four planes and create terror in the world. Four American airplanes were hijacked; two were driven into the World Trade Centers and the third airplane into the Pentagon. The fourth airplane suspected target was the White House, but it was diverted by the brave men and women aboard that hijacked airplane, and crashed the airline jet before it could reach its target. It was like

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