911 ATTACK

The September 11, 2001, attacks were simultaneous terrorist attacks upon the United States of America on the morning of September 11, 2001. Nineteen members of the al-Qaeda terrorist network hijacked four commercial airliners, crashing two into the twin towers of the World Trade Center in New York City and one into the Pentagon in Virginia. The fourth plane crashed in rural Pennsylvania; its target may have been the U.S. Capitol or the White House. It was the worst terrorist attack in the history of the United States,[1] and indeed incurred more casualties than at the surprise attack at the Battle of Pearl Harbor.

The four hijackings were timed to be simultaneous. "Muscle men" overpowered and killed stewards and pilots with box cutters smuggled past airport security, while the new pilots turned off the transponders needed for air traffic control, and flew the planes, each loaded with over 20,000 gallons of fuel, toward the targets.

  

ATTACKS

The four flights involved were: 
American Airlines Flight 11 was flown into World Trade Center North Tower at 8:46, under the control of Mohammed Atta . 
United Airlines Flight 175 first behaved abnormally, from the perspective of the air traffic control system, at 8:42.[4] It hit the World Trade Center South Tower at 9:03, flown by Marwan al Shehhi.

American Airlines Flight 77 hit the Pentagon at 9:37, piloted by Nawafal Hazmi.   
 United Airlines Flight 93 crashed in a field in Pennsylvania at 10:03, after a struggle with passengers, flown by Ziad Jarrah.


ATTACKERS                              
Al-Qaeda    
Osama bin Laden
Khalid Sheikh Mohammed

PLANNING OF THE ATTACKS

The idea for the attacks came from Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, who first presented it to Osama bin Laden in 1996.In December 1998, the CIA's Counterterrorist Center reported to President Bill Clinton that al-Qaeda was preparing for attacks in the U.S. that might include hijacking aircraft.In late 1998 or early 1999, bin Laden gave approval for Mohammed to go forward with organizing the plot. A series of meetings occurred in early 1999, involving Mohammed, bin Laden, and his deputy Mohammed Atef.Atef provided operational support for the plot, including target selections and helping arrange travel 
for the hijackers.Bin Laden provided leadership and financial support for the plot, and was involved in selecting participants.
 

INFILTRATING THE HIJACKERS

The key hijackers entered the United States legally in 2000. Two of the 19 and possibly 11 others presented fraudulently altered passports when they entered the United States. Mohammed al-Qahtani, who was refused admittance by U.S. immigration officials in August 2001, was identified by Khalid Sheikh Mohammed as the probably 20th hijacker, although some reports suggest he was intended for a follow-up attack. U.S. intelligence appears to accept that al-Qahtani, captured in Pakistan, and an admitted al-Qaida member, knew he was going into the U.S. for a suicide attack, but did not have specific prior knowledge of the exact attack.

POINT OF VIEW:

All of us knew that United States is one of the leading and most popular secured country but how comes those hijackers who brought cutter box knives on the airport were not detected during the checkpoint screening if that airport was surrounded with many well trained  security and equipped CCTV cameras.

Because of this terrible tragedy many people lives are gone and towers were badly hit by the planes that cause great destruction and serious damage to the economy which had a significant impact on global markets. When we heard United States most people react the same way that they are prosperous, influential and modernized country. Because of its advanced technology everywhere is monitored on computers for the security of everyone. But this country once failed when dreadful attack occurred on their place and no one expect it will happen to them because nobody detects this horrible plot of terrorist. That’s why shocked, dead and devastated spread over that day. Because United States is known of most powerful country they have strong confidence to say that everything is fine and secured. But one thing they don’t know that there is greater than them which are beyond to their expectation.

911 attacks is somewhat disastrous event in the United States in which this news is world wide spread for it was unbelievable incidence in this country that even I was shocked by this great devastation done by the hijackers led by one person named Khalid Sheikh Mohammed who made this awful plot against the United States

POSTED BY:
Rachel Eachavia Bague