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September 11 Attacks Not logged in Talk Contributions Create account Log in Article Talk Read View source View history Search Wikipedia September 11 attacks From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Main page "9/11" redirects here. For the date September 11, see September 11. For the date November 9, Contents see November 9. Featured content For the emergency number, see 9-1-1. Current events For other uses, see September 11 attacks (disambiguation). Random article The September 11 attacks (also referred to as 9/11)[nb 1] Donate to Wikipedia September 11 attacks Wikipedia store were a series of four coordinated terrorist attacks by the Part of Terrorism in the United States Islamic terrorist group al-Qaeda on the United States on Interaction the morning of Tuesday, September 11, 2001. The attacks Help killed 2,996 people, injured over 6,000 others, and caused About Wikipedia at least $10 billion in infrastructure and property Community portal [2][3] Recent changes damage. Contact page Four passenger airliners operated by two major U.S. passenger air carriers (United Airlines and American Tools Airlines)—all of which departed from airports in the What links here Related changes northeastern United States bound for California—were Upload file hijacked by 19 al-Qaeda terrorists. Two of the planes, Special pages American Airlines Flight 11 and United Airlines Flight 175, Permanent link were crashed into the North and South towers, Page information respectively, of the World Trade Center complex in New Wikidata item open in browser PRO version Are you a developer? Try out the HTML to PDF API pdfcrowd.com Wikidata item York City. Within an hour and 42 minutes, both 110-story Cite this page towers collapsed, with debris and the resulting fires Print/export causing partial or complete collapse of all other buildings in Create a book the World Trade Center complex, including the 47-story 7 Download as PDF World Trade Center tower, as well as significant damage to Printable version ten other large surrounding structures. A third plane, In other projects American Airlines Flight 77, was crashed into the Pentagon (the headquarters of the United States Department of Top row: The Twin Towers of the Wikimedia Commons World Trade Center burning Wikinews Defense) in Arlington County, Virginia, leading to a partial 2nd row, left to right: Collapsed section of the Pentagon; Flight 175 crashes into 2 WTC; Wikiquote collapse of the building's western side. The fourth plane, 3rd row, left to right: A firefighter requests Wikiversity United Airlines Flight 93, initially was steered toward assistance at World Trade Center site; Washington, D.C., but crashed into a field in Stonycreek Ground Zero; An engine Languages from Flight 93 is recovered Township near Shanksville, Pennsylvania, after its Bottom row: Flight 77's collision with the Afrikaans passengers tried to overcome the hijackers. 9/11 was the Pentagon as captured by three Alemannisch consecutive CCTV frames Ænglisc single deadliest incident for firefighters and law Location New York City, New York, U.S.; enforcement officers[4] in the history of the United States, ;.Arlington County, Virginia, U.S اﻟﻌﺮﺑﯿﺔ Avañe'ẽ with 343 and 72 killed respectively. Stonycreek Township near Azərbaycanca Suspicion quickly fell on al-Qaeda. The United States Shanksville, Pennsylvania, U.S. ﺗرﮐﺠﻪ responded by launching the War on Terror and invading Date September 11, 2001; 15 years বাংলা ago Bân-lâm-gú Afghanistan to depose the Taliban, which had harbored al- 8:46 a.m. – 10:28 a.m. (EDT) Беларуская Qaeda. Many countries strengthened their anti-terrorism Target World Trade Center Беларуская legislation and expanded the powers of law enforcement (тарашкевіца)​ (AA11 and UA 175) and intelligence agencies to prevent terrorist attacks. Български The Pentagon (AA77) Boarisch Although al-Qaeda's leader, Osama bin Laden, initially White House or U.S. Capitol (UA 93; failed) Bosanski denied any involvement, in 2004 he claimed responsibility Brezhoneg for the attacks.[1] Al-Qaeda and bin Laden cited U.S. Attack type Aircraft hijackings Suicide attacks Català support of Israel, the presence of U.S. troops in Saudi Mass murder Čeština Arabia, and sanctions against Iraq as motives. After open in browser PRO version Are you a developer? Try out the HTML to PDF API pdfcrowd.com Čeština Arabia, and sanctions against Iraq as motives. After Terrorism Cymraeg evading capture for almost a decade, Osama bin Laden Dansk Deaths 2,996 (2,977 victims + 19 hijackers) was located and killed by SEAL Team Six of the U.S. Navy Deitsch Non-fatal 6,000+ Deutsch in May 2011. injuries [1] Eesti The destruction of the World Trade Center and nearby Perpetrators Al-Qaeda (see also responsibility and hijackers) Ελληνικά infrastructure caused serious damage to the economy of Español No. of 19 Lower Manhattan and had a significant effect on global participants Esperanto markets, resulting in the closing of Wall Street until Euskara September 17 and the civilian airspace in the U.S. and Canada until September 13. Many closings, ﻓﺎرﺳﯽ Føroyskt evacuations, and cancellations followed, out of respect or fear of further attacks. Cleanup of the World Français Trade Center site was completed in May 2002, and the Pentagon was repaired within a year. On Gaeilge November 18, 2006, construction of One World Trade Center began at the World Trade Center site. Gàidhlig The building was officially opened on November 3, 2014.[5][6] Numerous memorials have been Galego constructed, including the National September 11 Memorial & Museum in New York City, the Pentagon 贛語 Memorial in Arlington County, Virginia, and the Flight 93 National Memorial in a field in Stonycreek 한국어 Հայերեն Township near Shanksville, Pennsylvania. हद Hrvatski Contents Ido 1 Background Bahasa Indonesia 1.1 Al-Qaeda Interlingua 1.1.1 Osama bin Laden Íslenska 1.1.2 Khalid Sheikh Mohammed Italiano 1.1.3 Other al-Qaeda members עברית 1.2 Motives Basa Jawa 1.3 Planning of the attacks ಕನಡ 1.4 Intelligence before the attacks ქართული Қазақша 2 Attacks Kernowek 2.1 Events Kiswahili 2.2 Casualties open in browser PRO version Are you a developer? Try out the HTML to PDF API pdfcrowd.com Kurdî 2.3 Damage Latina 2.4 Rescue efforts Latviešu 3 Aftermath Lëtzebuergesch 3.1 Immediate response Lietuvių 3.2 Domestic reactions Limburgs 3.2.1 Hate crimes Lumbaart 3.2.2 Muslim American response Magyar 3.3 International reactions Македонски 3.4 Military operations മലയാളം Malti 4 Effects मराठ 4.1 Health issues მარგალური 4.2 Economic Bahasa Melayu 4.3 Cultural 4.4 Government policies toward terrorism Nederlands 5 Investigations 日本語 5.1 FBI Нохчийн 5.2 CIA Norsk bokmål 5.3 Congressional inquiry Norsk nynorsk 5.4 9/11 Commission Occitan 5.5 National Institute of Standards and Technology Oʻzbekcha/ўзбекча 6 Rebuilding ਪੰਜਾਬੀ Pälzisch 7 Memorials 8 See also ﭘﻨﺠﺎﺑﯽ Plattdüütsch 9 Notes Polski 10 References Português 10.1 Citations Ripoarisch 10.2 Bibliography Română 11 Further reading Rumantsch 12 External links Русский open in browser PRO version Are you a developer? Try out the HTML to PDF API pdfcrowd.com Саха тыла Scots Background Shqip Al-Qaeda Simple English Slovenčina Further information: Al-Qaeda and Jihad V · T · E · Attacks by al-Qaeda Slovenščina The origins of al-Qaeda can be traced to 1979 1992 Yemen hotel bombings · Ślůnski when the Soviet Union invaded Afghanistan. 1998 United States embassy bombings · USS Cole · · Osama bin Laden traveled to Afghanistan and September 11 attacks · Ghriba · Faylaka Island attack ﮐﻮردی Српски / srpski Bali (1st) · Mombasa · Riyadh · Casablanca · helped organize Arab mujahideen to resist the Srpskohrvatski / Marriott Hotel · Istanbul · Madrid · српскохрватски [7] Soviets. Under the guidance of Ayman al- 2004 Khobar massacre · Bali (2nd) · Suomi Zawahiri, bin Laden became more radical.[8] In 2005 Amman Bombings · Algiers · Qahtaniya · Svenska 1996, bin Laden issued his first fatwā, calling for Islamabad · Wanat · Camp Chapman attack · Pune · Tagalog American soldiers to leave Saudi Arabia.[9] In Amenas hostage crisis · த Taqbaylit In a second fatwā in 1998, bin Laden outlined his objections to American foreign policy with respect to [10] లుగు Israel, as well as the continued presence of American troops in Saudi Arabia after the Gulf War. Bin ไทย Laden used Islamic texts to exhort Muslims to attack Americans until the stated grievances are reversed. Muslim legal scholars "have throughout Islamic history unanimously agreed that the jihad is an individual Türkçe [10] Українська duty if the enemy destroys the Muslim countries", according to bin Laden. Osama bin Laden اردو Vèneto Tiếng Việt Further information: Osama bin Laden, Death of Osama bin Laden, and Videos of Osama bin 文言 Laden Winaray Bin Laden, who orchestrated the attacks, initially denied but later admitted involvement.[1][11][12] Al Jazeera broadcast a statement by bin Yorùbá 粵語 Laden on September 16, 2001, stating, "I stress that I have not carried Zazaki out this act, which appears to have been carried out by individuals with Zeêuws their own motivation."[13] In November 2001, U.S. forces recovered a open in browser PRO version Are you a developer? Try out the HTML to PDF API pdfcrowd.com 中文 videotape from a destroyed house in Jalalabad, Afghanistan. In the Edit links video, bin Laden is seen talking to Khaled al-Harbi and admits foreknowledge of the attacks.[14] On December 27, 2001, a second bin Laden video was released. In the video, he said: 1997 picture of Osama bin It has become clear that the West in general and America in Laden particular have an unspeakable hatred for Islam. ... It is the hatred of crusaders. Terrorism against America deserves to be praised because it was a response to injustice, aimed at forcing America to stop its support for Israel, which kills our people.
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