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  September 11, 2001 Terrorist Attack
The September 11, 2001 Terrorist Attack (colloquially referred to as Nine-eleven and 9/11 for the US date format) was a terrorist suicide attack that involved the hijacking of fully-fueled passenger jets then used as flying bombs to kill more than 3,000 people on September 11, 2001.
The terrorist attacks of September 11th 2001 had immediate and overwhelming effects upon the United States population and prompted numerous memorials and services all over the world, as well as tolerance of the US retaliation upon those accused of supporting the attacks.
In late September, cases of anthrax started breaking out; no connection to the September 11 attack has been found, though reports emerged in March 2002 that one of the hijackers was infected with cutaneous anthrax.
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 Closings and cancellations following the September 11, 2001 attacks - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Following the September 11, 2001 attacks, several institutions responded with closures, cancellations, and postponements.
The schools that closed took no chances after the attacks and dismissed their students early, understanding the fact that children were watching the television coverage of the attacks and that they had been victims of an act of terrorist violence before--the Oklahoma City bombing in 1995.
From September 27 one-occupant cars were banned from crossing into Lower Manhattan from Midtown on weekday mornings, in an effort to relieve some of the crush of traffic in the city (the morning rush hour was lasting from 5:30 AM to noon), caused largely by the increased security measures put in place.
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 September 11, 2001 Terrorist Attacks
The attacks of September 11th, 2001 had immediate and overwhelming effects upon the United States population and prompted numerous memorials and services all over the world, as well as support and/or tolerance for the US retaliation upon those accused of supporting the attacks.
After the U.S. attack removed the Taliban from power in many parts of Afghanistan, a videotape was discovered abandoned in Kabul, the Afghan capital, which showed bin Laden discussing the attacks in language that is hard to account for except in ways that imply he intended to indicate his foreknowledge.
Closings, cancellations, postponements, and evacuations caused by the attacks
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 September 11, 2001 attacks - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography
On September 16, 2001, Osama bin Laden denied any involvement with the attacks by reading a statement which was broadcast by Qatar's Al Jazeera satellite channel: "I stress that I have not carried out this act, which appears to have been carried out by individuals with their own motivation."Fox News.
Following the attacks, 80,000 Arab and Muslim immigrants were fingerprinted and registered under the Alien Registration Act of 1940.
The National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States was formed in late 2002 to prepare a full and complete account of the circumstances surrounding the attacks, including preparedness for and the immediate response to the attacks.
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 September 11, 2001 attacks - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The September 11, 2001 attacks (often referred to as 9/11) were a series of coordinated terrorist attacks upon the United States, predominantly targeting civilians, carried out on Tuesday, September 11, 2001.
The attacks are almost universally referred to as terrorist attacks, and certainly fall under the two most-used definitions, both "political violence by non-state actors" and "political violence against civilians".
On September 20, 2001, the president spoke before the nation and a joint session of the United States Congress, regarding the events of that day, the intervening nine days of rescue and recovery efforts, and his intent in response to those events.
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The September 11 2001 attacks were a series of coordinated terrorist suicide attacks against the Pentagon and the World Trade Center in the United States on September 11 2001.
The combined attack of September 11 on World Trade Center was the deadliest act terrorism against the United States and one the deadliest attacks of asymmetric warfare in history.
The attacks of September 11th 2001 had and overwhelming effects upon the United States and prompted numerous memorials and services all over the world as well support and/or tolerance for the US retaliation those accused of supporting the attacks.
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 Financial assistance following the September 11, 2001 attacks - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography
Victims of earlier terrorist attacks, including those linked to al-Qaida, were not included in the fund.
November 20 2001, there had been 1,592,295 blood donations since September 11.
On Thursday and Friday, September 14-15 September 2001, various relief supplies for the World Trade Center relief effort were collected from the New York City area, and dropped off at the Javits Convention Center or at a staging area at Union Square.
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 September 11, 2001 Terrorist Attacks - Questionz.net , answers to all your questions   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
The September 11, 2001 Terrorist Attacks (often referred to as 9/11) were a series of coordinated terrorist suicide attacks that involved the hijacking of fully-fueled passenger jets.
In late September, British Prime Minister Tony Blair released evidence compiled by Western intelligence agencies connecting Osama bin Laden, a wealthy Saudi terrorist formerly sponsored by the CIA with close ties to the Afghan Taliban leadership, and bin Laden's Al-Qaida organisation.
In late September, cases of anthrax started breaking out; no connection to the September 11 attack has been found, though reports emerged in March 2002 that one of the hijackers may have been infected with cutaneous anthrax.
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 September 11, 2001 Terrorist Attack/Casualties
As of September 7, 2002, 3044 people were presumed dead as a result of all four September 11 attacks.
By September 7, 2002, 2650 people were presumed confirmed dead and 1058 bodies had been identified.
The number of missing people grew to estimates as high as over 6000 in the months following the attack, but steadily declined as stories were checked and duplicate entries removed.
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 Closings and cancellations following the September 11, 2001 attacks
Originally scheduled for September 16, 2001, the glamorous awards show was rescheduled twice (among rumors of cancelling the show entirely) before finally taking place on November 4, with a somewhat somber atmosphere.
The 2001 Ryder Cup of golf, held in Britain, was postponed a whole year.
Beginning September 27, one-occupant cars were banned from crossing into Lower Manhattan from Midtown on weekday mornings, in an effort to relieve some of the crush of traffic in the city (the morning rush hour was lasting from 5:30 AM to noon), caused largely by the increased security measures put in place.
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 Transwiki:Casualties of the September 11, 2001 attacks - Wikipedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
As of 2005, 2,992 people were presumed dead as a result of all four September 11 attacks.
By September 20, 2001, 6291 people, including rescue and recovery workers, had been treated for injuries.
The Pentagon reports 125 staffers killed or missing, with 121 remains recovered and identified, as of September 11, 2002.
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 September 11, 2001 attacks - Gurupedia
Whereas Pearl Harbor was a military base attacked by military forces of a sovereign state, on this occasion the primary targets were civilians and conventional military forces were not used.
These statements suggest a motive for attacking the WTC in 2001 that is consistent with the motive expressed by terrorists in a letter sent to the New York Times after the 1993 bombing attack of the WTC, "We declare our responsibility for the explosion on the mentioned building.
President Bush said: "America was targeted for attack because we're the brightest beacon for freedom and opportunity in the world." The purported statements of bin Laden in the disputed 2002 letter include depravity of Western civilization as a motive for attacks.
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The captain of Flight 11, John Ogonowski, is said to have been killed by terrorists before the impact.
He was arrested on August 16, 2001, about four weeks before the attacks, ostensibly for an immigration violation, but FBI agents suspected he had violent intentions for receiving flight training earlier that year.
At the deadline for victim's compensation, September 11, 2003, 2,833 applications were received from the families of those killed (from an official death toll of 2,986).
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 September 11, 2001 attacks - Gurupedia
Arlington, Virginia; the final aircraft, supposed to attack the United States Capitol building in Washington, D.C., did not reach its target and crashed into a Pennsylvania field.
The attacks are often referred to as September 11th or 9/11.
In Spanish the attacks are referred to as 11-S (11 September).
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 Wikinfo | September 11, 2001 Terrorist Attack
The September 11, 2001 Terrorist Attack (colloquially referred to as Nine-eleven and 9/11 for the US date format) was a terrorist suicide attack that involved the aircraft hijacking of fully-fueled passenger jets then used as flying bombs to kill 2,801 people on September 11, 2001.
At least about 100 tons of asbestos were used in the construction of the WTC and had not yet been fully removed [1].
Images, some of which are used under the doctrine of Fair use or used with permission, may not be available.
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Passengers and members of the flight crew on the fourth hijacked aircraft attempted to retake control of their plane from the hijackers; that plane crashed into a field in rural Somerset County, Pennsylvania.
In February 2006, President Bush revealed that al-Qaeda had initially planned to crash a plane into the tallest building in the United States (west of the Mississippi River), the Library Tower in Los Angeles on the same day.
^ The attacks are often referred to simply as September 11, 9/11, 911, or 9-11.
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