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Topic Reading-Vol.2709-9/11/2019

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2019/09/11 Topic Reading-Vol.2709-9/11/2019

Dear MELTopic Readers,

Over the years, terrorists have claimed thousands of innocent lives in the pursuit of their dark objectives. The worst and deadliest of all was taken place 18 years ago, today.

The September 11 attacks, or 9.11, were a series of four coordinated terrorist attacks by the Islamic terrorist group al-Qaeda against the United States on the morning of Tuesday, September 11, 2001. The attacks killed nearly 3,000 and injured over 6,000 others.

Four passenger airliners that departed from New York or Boston were hijacked by 19 al-Qaeda terrorists.

Two of the planes were crashed into the North and South towers of the World Trade Center complex in Lower Manhattan, New York. Within an hour and 42 minutes, both 110-story towers collapsed.

A third plane was crashed into the Pentagon, the headquarters of the U.S. Department of Defense.

The fourth plane was initially flown toward Washington, D.C., but crashed into a field in Pennsylvania after its passengers prevented the hijackers from piloting the aircraft.

9/11 is the single deadliest terrorist attack in human history.

The United States responded by launching the War on Terror and invading Afghanistan to depose the Taliban, which had failed to comply with the U.S. demands to hand over Osama bin Laden, the mastermind of 9.11 and expel al-Qaeda from Afghanistan.

Read about the worst terrorist attack and remember the victims.

https://www.history.com/topics/21st-century/9-11-attacks

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