Essay On 9/11 Attacks

Girls and boys sleepily hit their alarm clocks. Adults walked or drove to work. Tourists planned out their day. A few hours later, everyone's life would take a drastic turn. Four hijacked commercial planes crashed in 3 different places in the northeast. The US reacted and invaded Afghanistan, disrupting and destroying the government. When did this, they created a never ending civil war in several countries that devastated millions.

On September 11, 2001, 4 hijacked planes crashed. 2 planes bursted through the twin towers, causing them to fall after some time. At first, people believed that it was a accident. After the second plane hit the south tower, they knew something was going on. The third plane crashed into the pentagon, and the fourth was aiming for the capitol
Unfortunately they did. After the bombing in the WTC, al-qaeda completed a series of attacks on both US soldiers and other groups outside the US. After being exposed for these deadly encounters, Bin laden is forced to leave Sudan, and he flees to Afghanistan. Now people are "awake" and aware of terrorism. Warnings started to go out, to alert people about this problem, especially in the US. Different areas of security reported some useful information that went under the radar because the Bush Administration chose to ignore them. These useful warnings were mostly by the FAA, or Federal Aviation Administration. They warned airlines about terrorists planning to hijack planes, up until just a few weeks before 9/11. Because of these human errors, 9/11 was a success. Something must have angered Bin Laden for him to go to the extreme. The first interaction between the US and Al-Qaeda was back in 1988, during the war against the soviet union. The US helped them to gain power over their land, and provided weapons for them. The main reason that Bin Laden was upset was because of the gulf war in 1991. Soldiers were sent to