September 11 attacks | |
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Part of terrorism in the United States and the War on Terrorism | |
Explosion following the plane impact into the South Tower Flight 77 hits The Pentagon. Fuselage of Flight 93 in Stonycreek Township View of the collapsing North Tower Collapse of 7 WTC World Trade Center site after the attacks The Pentagon building on fire | |
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Date | September 11, 2001 8:46 – 10:28 a.m. (EDT) |
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Deaths | 3,296 (3,277 victims + 19 hijackers) |
Injured | 6,000-25,000+ |
Perpetrators | al-Qaeda[1] (see also responsibility and hijackers) |
No. of participants | 19 |
The September 11 attacks (also known as 9/11)[nb 1] were a series of four coordinated Islamist terrorist attacks carried out by the terrorist organization al-Qaeda against the United States of America. All the attacks happened on the morning of Tuesday, September 11, 2001. The attacks killed 3,296 people, including the 19 attackers,[2] making it the deadliest terrorist attack in American history.[3] They caused more than $10 billion in damage to infrastructure.[4][5][6][7][8] The terrorists took control of 4 passenger airplanes to destroy 2 famous buildings, the Twin Towers and part of the Pentagon, by flying the planes into them. There were two attacks in New York City and one in Arlington, Virginia. The fourth attack, aimed at Washington, D.C. did not work and the plane crashed in a field near Shanksville, Pennsylvania. The Twin Towers collapsed as a result of the crashes.
The buildings attacked were the World Trade Center's Twin Towers in New York City by 10 hijackers in total and the Pentagon in Arlington, Virginia. The fourth plane crashed in an empty field in Pennsylvania before it could reach its target in Washington, D.C. That target was either the White House or the United States Capitol.[9] After the event, the United States government said the people who had done the attacks were associated with the Islamist terrorist group al-Qaeda and the attacks had been organized by its leader Osama bin Laden.
The September 11 attacks are commonly attributed as the event that made the War on Terrorism begin.
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A total of 2,996 people died: 19 hijackers and 2,977 victims.
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