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Flight 93
Flight 93 is the only plane out of the 4 planes hijacked that never made it to its intended target. It crashed down in a field in rural Pennsylvania. With the help of the passengers and crew they fought back for their lives. 3,000 people lost their lives during the 9/11 attacks. That number would have been significantly higher if it wasn't for the passengers and crew aboard flight 93 who fought for their lives. -
Osama Bin Laden
Osama bin Laden was the leader behind the al-Qaeda. With his inherited fortune he trained terrorists who were at the time part of the Taliban in Afghanistan. Bin Laden was also previously suspected for other terrorists attacks against the U.S. -
Planning 9/11
The terrorist attack of 9/11 had been thoroughly planned out before the day of the attack. Many of the al-Qaeda members had moved to America as much as a year in advance and taken flying lessons at an American flight school. Some of the other terrorists had -
Attacks
The last plane crashed into an isolated area of Pennsylvania. The last plane was meant it hit in Washington, D.C. again, but went on a tangent when the heroic passengers intervened. Thousands of people were killed and many were forever affected. -
The Attacks
Four groups of terrorists hijacked four commercial jet airplanes in Boston, Newark, and Washington, D.C. The hijackers flew two of the airplanes directly into the World Trade Center towers in New York City. The planes destroyed the towers, the surrounding buildings, and the lives of Americans. A third plane hit the pentagon in Washington, D.C. -
9/11
The total amount of casualties over all during the 9/11 attack, in New York, were 2,996. Divided up the amount of people that died in the World Trade Center was 2,606, in the airplane it was 246, in the pentagon building there were 125 and of the hijackers 19. These attacks were orchestrated by an Islamic group called the al-Qaeda. -
Pentagon
Because of the unique design of the pentagon when the airplane hit a part of the building there were still people on the opposite side of the building who didn’t realize that they had been attacked. Every passenger, flight attendant, and pilots aboard this particular plane died. Along with 125 workers at the pentagon. -
Send the troops
Bush also signed an air security bill that made baggage screeners federal employees and required the inspection of all luggage checked on U.S. domestic flights. The U.S. also developed a global coalition of nations to rid the world of terrorist groups. The process started with military action against Afghanistan in the following October of 2001. The United States and NATO air strikes targeted Taliban-controlled command centers, airfields, and al-Qaeda hiding places. -
New Resolution
Bush also asked the UN to pass a new resolution against Iraq. If Iraq's leader, Saddam Hussein, wanted peace in his country then he would have to give up the nation's weapons of mass destruction, readmit the UN weapons inspectors he had expelled in 1998, stop supporting terrorism, and stop oppressing his people. -
Homeland security
Following the terrorists attacks on the homefront, the U.S. took certain precautions. George W. Bush, the current president at the time, vowed to put a stop to the terrorism. He established a new cabinet department - the Department of Homeland Security - to protect the United States from terrorism and respond to any future attacks.
