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Remembering 9/11

9/11/01 • 19 Terrorists hijacked four planes. • The intended targets were: – Twin Towers (North and South) – The Pentagon – Washington D. C. • Three of the four targets were hit, Washington D. C. was not.

Who? • Al Qaeda is the terrorist group associated with the attacks • The 19 hijackers were composed of; – The first hijackers to arrive in the United States were Khalid al-Mihdhar and Nawaf al-Hazmi, who settled in the San Diego area in January 2000. They were followed by three hijacker-pilots, Mohamed Atta, Marwan al-Shehhi, and Ziad Jarrah early in the summer of 2000 to undertake flight training in south Florida. The fourth hijacker-pilot, Hani Hanjour, arrived in San Diego in December 2000. The rest of the "muscle hijackers" arrived in the spring and early summer of 2001.

Airplanes • American Airlines Flight 11 – Departure: Boston, MA – Destination: Los Angles, CA • United Airlines Flight 175 – Departure: Boston, MA – Destination: Los Angles, CA • American Airlines Flight 77 – Departure: Dulles, VA – Destination: Los Angles, CA • United Airlines Flight 93 – Departure: Newark, NJ – Destination: San Francisco, CA

Timeline • 8: 20 am: Flight 11 declared hijacked • 8: 42 am: Flight 175 declared hijacked • 8: 46 am: Flight 11 crashes into North Tower • 8: 50 am: Flight 77 is hijacked • 8: 55: President George W. Bush is alerted. The President is at Emma E. Booker Elementary School in Sarasota, Florida

Timeline • 9: 02 am: Flight 175 crashes into the South Tower. Broadcasted on live television. • 9: 08 am: FAA grounds all planes. • 9: 28 am: Flight 93 is hijacked. • 9: 37 am: Flight 77 crashes into the Westside of The Pentagon. • 9: 43 am: The White House is evacuated. • 9: 59 am: The South Tower collapses.

Timeline • 10: 02 am: The Sears Tower in Chicago is evacuated. • 10: 03 am: Flight 93 crashes in Somerset County, PA. – Passengers overthrew the terrorists and crash the plane before it hits Washington D. C. , its intended target. • 10: 28 am: The North Tower collapses. • 5: 20 pm: 7 World Trade Center collapses.

Camera That Captured the First Plane

The Aftermath • Heightened security at airports and various mass transit locations. • The Patriot Act • Homeland Security • War On Terrorism • Surge in military enrollment

Death of Osama Bin Laden • Osama bin Laden, head of the Islamist militant group al-Qaeda, was killed in Pakistan on May 2, 2011, shortly after 1 a. m. • Operation Neptune Spear, was ordered by United States President Obama. • The mission was carried out by US Navy SEALs from the United States Naval Special Warfare Development Group of the Joint Special Operations Command. • He was killed in his compound in Pakistan.

Bin Laden’s Compound

Viewing of Operation Neptune Spear

Conspiracy Theories of 9/11 • 9/11 was an inside job – US planned 9/11 to initiate war on Al-Qaeda • The planes had no windows and carried bombs. • The US Government knew about the attacks before they happened. • 9/11 did not exist.

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