An overview of September 11, 2001

How it effected us then and how we are effected by it now, years later.

On Tuesday, September 11, 2001, nineteen terrorists affiliated with al-Qaeda hijacked four commercial passenger jet airliners. Each team of hijackers included a trained pilot.

American Airlines Flights 11 & 77 United Airlines Flights 93 & 175

Ill-fated Flight Paths

American Airlines Flight 11• First to attack• Departed Boston,

Massachusetts at 7:59 a.m.• Destination: Los Angeles,

California• Detoured to New York City,

New York• Crashed into World Trade

Center North Tower (1WTC) at 8:46 a.m.

• 81 passengers, 7 flight attendants, 2 pilots

New York

New York City

Manhattan, a borough of NYC

The Twin Towers

The World Trade Center

WTC 1 or North Tower

United Airlines Flight 175

• Second attack• Departed from Boston,

Massachusetts @ 7:58 a.m.

• Original destination: Los Angeles, California

• Hit South Tower of WTC in NYC at 9:03 a.m.

• 56 passengers , 7 flight attendants, 2 pilots

World Trade Center

North & South Towers

South Tower

Rudy Giuliani: NYC Mayor during 9/11

Rudy Giuliani TIME magazine’s “Person of the Year, 2001”

President George W. Bush was visiting Booker Elemen-tary School in Sarasota, Florida when he received word of the attack.

President Bush at Ground Zero

Ground Zero memorial

Ground Zero memorial

Ground Zero memorial

Winning Design to Replace WTC 1 & 2

Architect Daniel Libeskind “One World Trade Tower”

Libeskind interview

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American Airlines Flight 77• Departed from

Washington Dulles Airport in Fairfax, Virginia @ 8:10 a.m.

• Destination: Los Angeles, California

• Crashed into Pentagon in Arlington, Virginia @ 9:39 a.m.

• 184 killed; 59 passengers, & 125 on the ground

The Pentagon Arlington, Virginia

Pentagon Memorial BenchesThe memorial benches are made of granite and steel, and arranged from youngest (3 yrs.) to oldest (71 yrs.) Names of the people who were on the plane face west. Name of the people who were in the Pentagon face the building.

Names are etched on the end of each wing-shape bench. A small tranquil pond gurgles beneath, while maple trees planted next to each bench will one day provide shade.

Pentagon Memorial

The Pentagon’s “American Heroes Memorial”

Pentagon Quilts

United Airlines Flight 93• Departed from Newark, New Jersey @ 8:42 a.m.

• Destination: San Francisco, California

• Crashed into a field in Stony Creek Township near Shanksville, Pennsylvania

• Terrorists planned to fly plane into either the White House or the U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.C.

• 38 passengers, 5 flight attendants, 2 pilots, 4 hijackers

• The passengers, aware of the other crashes, voted to confront the terrorists. At 9:45 a.m., passenger Todd Beamer ends a phone conversation with, “Let’s roll”.

• At 9:58 another passenger says he’s seen an explosion and smoke

• Debate: plane shot down by a missile or flown into ground @ 10:06 a.m.

The White HouseHome of the President

North view of White House South view of White House

The United States Capitol

Work place of 100 Senators & 435 House of Representatives

Todd Beamer 9/11 Hero

Deliberated with other Flight 93 passengers and decided to take on the terrorist.

His last words heard on the phone were, “Let’s Roll”.

Flight 93 crash site

Flight 93 Memorial

Flight 93 Memorial

Who was responsible for the killing of 3,497 people?

Wrongly Accused:

The Middle Eastern country of Iraq Their leader Saddam Hussein

Saddam Hussein

Who was responsible for 9/11?

Al-Qaeda terroristsalso known as Muslim extremists

All of the 19 hijackers that participated in September

11th suicide attacks were from the Middle East.

15 were from SAUDI ARABIA1 was from EGYPT1 was from LEBANON2 were from the UNITED ARAB

EMIRATES

The Middle East

What and Who are al-Qaeda?• Al-Qaeda is a worldwide, terrorist

network that was founded by Osama bin Laden

• The majority of militants (fighters with weapons) are Arab (from the Middle East)

• Islam is their religion

• As followers of this religion, they are known as “Muslims”

• However, they are Muslim extremists. Their interpretation of the Islamic religion is much different from other Muslims.

• Their holy book is the Quran/Koran.

• They are known for suicide bombings and mass kidnappings

• The noblest deed is Jihad

• They kidnap and recruit children

• They sell weapons to the Taliban.

• Al-Qaeda supports Muslim fighters in many countries. Their goals are to overthrow Muslim governments that are corrupt and drive out Western influence (U.S.)

Osama bin Laden• From Saudi Arabia• Founder of al-Qaeda• From 2nd richest family in

Saudi Arabia• Was kicked out of his country• Was almost captured in the

Tora Bora region of Afghanistan in 2001

• Was found & killed in Pakistan on May 2, 2011 by U.S. Navy Seals

AfghanistanWhere the U.S. is at war today.

Kabul, Afghanistan’s capital

Tora Bora: the region bin Laden was almost captured in 2001

Bin Laden’s Mountain Fortress

Khalid Sheikh MohammedIt was his idea to attack the United States. Osama bin Laden gave his approval.

He is presently imprisoned in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.

Guantanamo Bay, CubaUsed as a prison since 2002 for terrorists

Guantanamo Bay, CubaDetention Center/Prison

K.S.M. was water-boarded 183x in one year

Who are the Taliban?• Muslim fighters in Afghanistan and

Pakistan• The United States, along with our

allies (friends) are presently fighting a war against the Taliban because they are hiding al-Qaeda terrorists

• Their leader is or was Mullah Mohammed Omar (He was believed killed May 23, 2011, but reports are unconfirmed

• They pay for their weapons by selling heroin. Afghanistan supplies 93% of the world’s opium to make heroin.

• The Taliban fighters are poor people.

NATO forces in Afghanistan

May 2, 2011Killing of Osama bin Ladin

http://abcnews.go.com/Entertainment/video?id=5368669&tab=9482931&section=4765066

bin Laden’s compoundAbbottabad, Pakistan

Navy Seals – Team 6