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    The attack on September 11, 2001 is defined as a group of Islamic terrorist who are believed to be members of the al-Qaeda, attacking the Pentagon and the World Trade Center, also known as the Twin Towers, by hijacking four commercial airlines. Only three of the four attacks succeed. This is considered a terrorist attack to most of us. From this incident we can define terrorism as a well-planned violent attack that targets innocent people to send a political message by planting fear not just to the

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    on September 11, 2001, it happened. It happened a tremendous scale. Thousands of innocent people lost their lives on that day. Thousands of families lost loved ones that day due to a series of terrorism attacks. Because laws were so weak back then, no one knew these attacks were ever going to happen. After these attacks, authorities in America and even the normal people in America knew that their needed to be a change. Something needed to be done. Changes did happen. The attacks on September 11,

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    suffered three attacks on September 11, 2001…” (Chavez, Linda). The United States suffered three attacks in one day. There was four aircrafts full with passengers but only one didn’t make it’s destination which was to Washington D.C. instead it crashed near Shanksville, Pennsylvania. One attack was the World Trade Center known as the Twin Towers that burned down, then the pentagon was also attacked. Therefore September 11, 2001 was a big tragic day to the United States because of the attacks they had to

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    On September 11, 2001, the Islamic extremist group, al-Qaeda, hijacked four airplanes and spreaded out against targets in the United States. “Two of the planes were flown into the twin towers of the World Trade Center in New York City, a third plane hit the Pentagon just outside Washington, D.C., and the fourth plane crashed in a field in Pennsylvania. Over 3,000 people were killed during the 9/11 terrorist attacks” (“9/11 Attack”), which caused the U.S. horrific sorrow. As I was interviewing

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    The terrorist attacks of September 11, altered American 's perceptions of the role in the world by strongly supporting the increased spending on national security and counterterrorism. Also, Americans have become more aware of how and where to engage in the world. As a result of the attacks, the US now has a defense that totals to nearly half the global total and has military dominance over scene, air, and space. The US also has the capability to dispatch massive military power anywhere in the world

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    The September 11, 2001 attacks were a series of four terrorist attacks. These attacks were launched by the Islamic terrorist group al-Queda. But let me start from the beginning. On September 11, 2001 starting at 8:46 a.m. ending at 10:28 a.m. in New York City and Washington D.C. terrorist by the Islamic group al-Queda four passenger airliners were hijacked. This was done by the 19 al-Queda terrorists so they could be flown into buildings in suicide attacks. Two of these planes, from Americana Airlines

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    On September 11, 2001 an Islamic terrorist organization named al-Qaeda committed a devastating and scaring act of terrorism towards the United States. There was four different attacks that occurred which were carried out by four passenger airliners that were hijacked. Two of the attacks took place in New York City (World Trade Center’s North and South Towers), one was at the Pentagon in Arlington Country (Virginia), and the other occurred in a field in Shanksville (Pennsylvania), which was thought

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    The September 11 attacks were a series of four coordinated terrorist attacks by the Islamic terrorist group “al-Qaeda” on the United States on the morning of Tuesday, September 11, 2001. The attacks killed nearly 3,000 people, injured over 6,000 others, and caused at least $10 billion in infrastructure and property damage.  Planning for the attack began in late 1998. A series of meetings followed soon after in which target selection and travel arrangements for the hijackers, just to name a few subjects

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    these terrorist attacks. The Tuesday morning of September 11, 2001, swept worldwide panic and sorrow, naming itself the deadliest terrorist attack on American soil to date. Nineteen terrorists, four planes, and millions of hearts broken later, the world was now split into the ‘before’ and ‘after’ of 9/11, impacting our environment tremendously both physically and psychologically. As the clock struck 8:46 am on September 11, 2001, the hijacked American Airlines Flight 11 crashed into the

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    The September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks, now referred to as 9/11, were a series of coordinated, well-planned suicide attacks that involved the use of hijacked passenger jets as a means of destruction . The suicide bombers used the passenger jets as bombs, and ran into the World Trade Center Towers of New York, the Pentagon, and a fourth plane that did not make it to its destination, hit the ground in Pennsylvania. These sudden attacks came as a shock to the people and government of the USA. The

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