Flight 93 Research Paper

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In 1996, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed met Osama bin Laden and formed the terrorist group Al-Qaeda. Will Al-Qaeda complete the destructive task of the September 11th Attack?

The September 11th Attack is one of the most historic events in all of United States history, and here is a story about it. The September eleventh attack was a terrorist attack planned by a man who is also a militant Islamic organization leader of al-Qaeda, called Osama Bin Laden. Osama states he does not like the support of Israel from the United States, the presence of the U.S. military in the sacred Islamic lands of the Arabian Peninsula, and the U.S. enforcement of sanctions against Iraq. He first called for jihad (war) against the United States in 1996. All of this hate
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Three minutes later at 10:02 am, Flight 93 was purposely crashed into a field in Pennsylvania by the passengers. All of the 44 passengers aboard Flight 93 were killed. At 10:28 the North Tower of the World Trade Center collapses and more of the smoke and dust pollute the air and create an even worse chemical than before that is very bad to breathe in. The destination of flight 93 was unknown, but it could've been the White House or the U.S. capital. At the World Trade Center, 2,763 died after the two planes slammed into the twin towers. That figure includes 343 firefighters and paramedics, 23 New York City police officers and 37 Port Authority police officers who were struggling to complete an evacuation of the buildings and save the office workers trapped on higher floors. At the Pentagon, 189 people were killed, including 64 on American Airlines Flight 77, the airliner that struck the building. On Flight 93, 44 people died when the plane crash-landed in Pennsylvania. President George W. Bush made multiple speeches about this incident and changed a lot of things about the airport security. The work to clean up the aftermath of the September Eleventh Attacks took ten months and involved employees from dozens of City, State and federal agencies and the tireless efforts of responders, laborers, contractors, volunteers, and community