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| | September 11, 2001 attacks - Encyclopedia.WorldSearch (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07) |
 | | The attacks were the most lethal ever by a foreign force on the U.S., and the first upon the mainland since the Japanese fire balloons of November 1944. |
 | | The casualties were in the thousands: 265 on the planes; 2,595, including 343 firemen, in the WTC; and 125 at the Pentagon. |
 | | The September 11th attacks, if committed by al-Qaeda, were consistent with their campaign against the United States, undertaken because of perceived American support for Israel in its the oppression of fellow Arab Muslims in Palestine, and American support for dictatorial regimes in the Middle East, e.g. |
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