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OVERVIEW OF REMEMBERING 911
The September 11, 2001 attacks were a series of coordinated attacks carried out in the United States on Tuesday, September 11, 2001. According to the official 9/11 Commission Report, nineteen men affiliated with al-Qaeda, a network of militant Islamist terrorist organizations, hijacked four American airliners. Two were crashed into the World Trade Center in Manhattan, New York City — one into each of the two tallest towers, about 17 minutes apart — shortly after which both towers collapsed. The third aircraft crashed into the U.S. Department of Defense headquarters, the Pentagon, in Arlington County, Virginia. The fourth plane crashed into a rural field in Somerset County, Pennsylvania near Shanksville following passenger resistance.
The 9/11 Commission reports that these terrorists turned the hijacked planes into the largest suicide bombs in history and the most lethal terrorist acts ever carried out in the United States. The September 11th attacks are inarguably the most significant events to have occurred so far in the 21st century in terms of the profound economic, social, cultural and military effects that followed in the United States and many parts of the world.
HISTORY OF REMEMBERING 911
The Islamist terrorist group al-Qaeda praised the attacks, had been involved in several previous attacks on American targets, and its leaders hinted at their involvement in the incidents. Osama bin Laden had earlier declared a jihad against the United States. Shortly after the attacks, the United States government declared al-Qaeda and bin Laden the prime suspects.
The first public response from Osama bin Laden was read on September 16, 2001. He stated, "I stress that I have not carried out this act, which appears to have been carried out by individuals with their own motivation," which was broadcast by Qatar's Al-Jazeera satellite channel. ([3], [4], [5]). This denial was broadcast on U.S. news networks and worldwide.
According to U.S. military sources, in November 2001 U.S. forces recovered a videotape from a destroyed house in Jalalabad, Afghanistan which showed Osama bin Laden talking to Khaled al-Harbi. In the tape, Osama seems to admit planning the attacks, though some dispute the translation provided. The tape was broadcast on various news networks in December 2001. In a 2004 video bin Laden appears to take full responsibility for the September 11 attacks.
REMEMBERING 911 TRIVIA
Why did Osama Bin Laden organize the attack on the World Trade Center?
In 2004, acknowledging responsibility for the attacks, Bin Laden claimed that the motivation for 9/11 included the wish to "restore freedom to our nation"; to "punish[] the aggressor in kind", and create economic damage to America - declaring a continuing aim of his jihad was "bleeding America to the point of bankruptcy".
Source: The English Wikipedia
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