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  September 11, 2001 attacks - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The September 11th attacks are among the most significant events to have occurred so far in the 21st century in terms of the profound economic, social, political, cultural and military effects that followed in the United States and many other parts of the world.
The attacks were denounced world-wide, with the headline of Paris, France's "Le Monde" newspaper being prototypical: "Today We Are All Americans." Approximately one month after the attacks the USA led a wide coalition of international forces into Afghanistan in pursuit of al-Qaeda forces.
The controversy was highlighted in September 2004 when Yusuf Islam, a leading British Muslim noted for his peaceful charitable work and previously known as the singer Cat Stevens, was barred from entering the U.S. and was subsequently returned to the UK after his flight was briefly diverted to Maine.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/9/11   (5314 words)

  
 September 11, 2001 attacks   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
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 the World Trade Center was the deadliest act of terrorism against the United States and one of the deadliest attacks of asymmetric warfare in history.
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.
www.bidprobe.com /en/wikipedia/s/se/september_11__2001_attacks.html   (4503 words)

  
 September 11, 2001 attacks
The September 11, 2001 attacks were a series of coordinated terrorist attacks against the United States on September 11, 2001.
The attacks were the first highly lethal attack by a foreign force on the U.S. mainland since the War of 1812.
Because the Air Transportation Act passed after the September 11 attacks limits the liability of airlines, plane manufacturers and airports to the amount of their insurance coverage, this case will likely be combined with the consolidated master case filed in 2003.
grupos.xasa.us /wiki/en/wikipedia/s/se/september_11__2001_attacks.html   (2922 words)

  
 September 11, 2001 attacks   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
The September 11th attacks are arguably the most significant events to have occurred so far in the 21st Century in terms of the profound economic, social, cultural, and military effects that followed in the United States and many parts of the world.
The September 11th attacks were consistent with their campaign against the United States, undertaken because of perceived American support for Israel's oppression of fellow Arab Muslims in Palestine, and American support for dictatorial regimes in the Middle East which al-Qaeda opposes (e.g.
The attacks were denounced world-wide and approximately one month after the attacks the USA led a wide coalition of international forces into Afghanistan in pursuit of al-Qaeda forces.
www.worldhistory.com /wiki/S/September-11,-2001-attacks.htm   (3898 words)

  
 Jordanian militants hail September 11 attacks at trial - Boston.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Twelve Jordanian militants hailed the September 11 attacks against the United States at the end of a trial that saw them jailed on Sunday for up to three years for plotting to kill members of an American dancing group.
AMMAN (Reuters) - Twelve Jordanian militants hailed the September 11 attacks against the United States at the end of a trial that saw them jailed on Sunday for up to three years for plotting to kill members of an American dancing group.
"September 11 was a great day when we made America weep and rubbed America's face in the dirt," the 50-year-old bearded militant, his legs chained, shouted from inside the caged dock of the court.
www.boston.com /news/world/middleeast/articles/2005/09/11/jordanian_militants_hail_september_11_attacks_at_trial   (558 words)

  
 Terrorist Attacks, September 11 2001
The graph of data from the formal prediction for September 11 shows a fluctuating deviation throughout the moments of the five major events, during which ever-increasing numbers of people around the world are hearing the news and watching in stunned disbelief.
There were 37 eggs reporting on September 11, and over the 4 hours and 10 minutes of the prediction period, their accumlated Chisquare was 15332 on 15000 degrees of freedom.
The terrible events of September 11 were a powerful magnet for our shared attention, and more than any event in the recent memory of the world they evoked the extraordinary emotions of horror and fear and commiseration and dismay.
noosphere.princeton.edu /terror.html   (5372 words)

  
 Springfield Library: September 11 Attacks Information Page   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
September 11 Digital Archive Uses electronic media to preserve, collect and present the history of the attacks and public response to them.
September 11, 2001: Attack on America Primary resources from the Avalon Project at Yale Law School, including Presidential and Congressional documents and links to related resources.
Voices of September 11 An advocacy group for family members of those killed in the September 11 attacks, with news, anniversary events timetable, and memorial proposals.
www.springfieldlibrary.org /attackhelp.html   (1414 words)

  
 September 11 attacks 'should not have come as a surprise' - The Washington Times: Nation/Politics - July 23, 2004   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
The 9/11 attacks were a shock, but they should not have come as a surprise.
The attack was carried out primarily by Saudi Hezbollah, an organization that had received help from the government of Iran.
But by September 2001, the executive branch of the U.S. government, the Congress, the news media and the American public had received clear warning that Islamist terrorists meant to kill Americans in high numbers.
www.washtimes.com /national/20040722-115447-6493r.htm   (2098 words)

  
 September 11 attacks --  Encyclopædia Britannica
The attacks caused extensive death and destruction and triggered an enormous U.S. effort to combat terrorism.
Because the attacks occurred in the morning on the U.S. East Coast, perhaps 90% of the Earth's population was awake when two airplanes...
Within days of the attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon, NATO, for the first time in its history, invoked Article 5 of its charter, declaring that the atrocities were an attack on the alliance.
www.britannica.com /eb/article-9394915?tocId=9394915   (976 words)

  
 The September 11 Digital Archive
The September 11 Digital Archive is pleased to announce that it has partnered with the Library of Congress to ensure the long-term preservation of its collections.
Submissions will be permanently archived in the September 11 Digital Archive in conjunction with the National Museum of American History's exhibition, "September 11: Bearing Witness to History" which is now on a national tour.
The September 11 Digital Archive was funded by a major grant from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation and organized by the American Social History Project/Center for Media and Learning at the City University of New York Graduate Center and the Center for History and New Media at George Mason University.
911digitalarchive.org   (373 words)

  
 RensSearch: September 11 Terrorist Attacks   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
NY September 11 by Magnum Photographers: The History Responds Project of the New York Historical Society.
September 11 and Beyond : "resources that are highly informational, non-sensational, and represent a variety of points of view.
Attack on America: Osama bin Laden, the Taliban and Terrorism from the Library at Eastern Carolina University.
www.lib.rpi.edu /resources/references/911.html   (2549 words)

  
 Human Rights Watch: Human Rights After September 11   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
September 11 was not just an assault, however, on lives and buildings.
Since September 11, the U.S. government has extended new military assistance to governments engaged in serious human rights abuse, including torture, political killings, illegal detention, religious persecution, and attacks on civilians during armed conflict, Human Rights Watch said in a report released today.
As you know, since September 11, there have already been numerous reports of violent assaults, harassment, and threats against men, women and children targeted solely because of their religious beliefs, ethnicity or nationality.
www.hrw.org /campaigns/september11   (3570 words)

  
 September 11, 2001 attacks - Gurupedia
The attacks are often referred to as September 11th or 9/11.
In Spanish the attacks are referred to as 11-S (11 September).
Moussaoui may have been included in a series of proposed followup attacks that never eventuated, and he may have been involved in some way with Nick Berg, whose college email password was found in Moussaoui's possession [2].
www.gurupedia.com /s/se/september_11,_2001_terrorist_attack.htm   (4497 words)

  
 FrontPage magazine.com :: How the Left Undermined America's Security Before 9/11 by David Horowitz
In responding to the attacks, the President himself took note of this: "America was targeted for attack," he told Congress on September 20, "because we’re the brightest beacon for freedom and opportunity in the world.
Clinton’s continuing ambivalence about America’s role in the world was highlighted in the wake of September 11, when he suggested that America actually bore some responsibility for the attacks on itself.
The Democrats’ cavalier attitude towards American security in the years preceding September 11 was dramatized in a bill to cut the intelligence budget sight unseen, which was introduced every year of the Clinton Administration by Independent Bernie Sanders.
www.frontpagemag.com /Articles/ReadArticle.asp?ID=15021   (5289 words)

  
 Political Ramifications of the September 11 Attacks
Lecture delivered at ICT Conference in Solidarity with the United States of America: Terrorism post September 11, held at Herzliya on 11 September 2002.
I would like to say, first of all, that the terrorist attacks of 9/11 were not just a traumatic event, but also constituted a watershed in terms of the international community.
This was the end of one period and the starting point of another, which is why it is also important to emphasize those things that have not changed.
www.ict.org.il /articles/articledet.cfm?articleid=475   (1859 words)

  
 September 11 attacks called avoidable -- The Washington Times
     The chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee said yesterday that the September 11 "hijackers could have been stopped" had U.S. officials acted on intelligence information available before the terrorist attacks.
He urged Congress to enact the legislation creating the new department by September 11 as a tribute to more than 3,000 Americans who died in last year's attacks.
     He said he believes it is possible for Congress to complete work on the authorization measure to establish the new department by September 11.
propagandamatrix.com /september_11_attacks_called_avoidable.htm   (545 words)

  
 Faith Identified responses to September 11 2001 attacks   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
The devastating, criminal attack on the Twin Towers was not an attack on the world’s single superpower, then, but something far more cosmic—a "cowardly" attack on "civilization," "liberty," "the free world," even "humanity." And the response must be commensurate—Operation Infinite Justice, as Secretary Rumsfeld initially announced it to the public.
WCC general secretary, Rev. Dr Konrad Raiser, sent a pastoral letter to WCC member churches in the USA on Thursday, 20 September, to express continued ecumenical support and sympathy in the wake of the attacks on New York and Washington, DC, and to urge discernment and encourage faithfulness in local, national and international responses.
The events of 11 September have again reminded all nations that all are vulnerable and that the only true security is common security.
www.une.edu.au /campus/chaplaincy/uniting/faith.html   (7500 words)

  
 September 11, 2001 attacks - dKosopedia
The attacks of September 11, 2001 were the deadliest acts of terrorism ever committed in the United States, killing nearly 3000 people.
One was crashed into the Pentagon, one crashed in a field in Pennsylvania, and two were crashed into the World Trade Center towers, leading to their collapse.
In response to the attacks, the United States invaded Afghanistan to remove the ruling Taliban, who were accused of harboring the mastermind of the 9/11 attacks, Osama Bin Laden, and other members of his al-Qaida terrorist group.
www.dkosopedia.com /index.php/9/11   (199 words)

  
 Terror Attacks of September 11
The perpetrators of the horrific attack of September 11 must be brought to justice, using the instruments of domestic and international law.
When almost-elected president George W. Bush announced his “war on terrorism” in the aftermath of the September 11 attacks, he also was launching a campaign to advance the agenda of the reactionary Right at home and abroad.
In the aftermath of the terrible attacks of September 11, I argued that the U.S. response of launching 'America's new war' would increase violence against women.
www.zmag.org /reactionscalam.htm   (5687 words)

  
 September 11 News.com - September 11, 2001 News Archives - The 9/11/2001 Terrorist Attack on America. Archives in ...
September 11 News.com - September 11, 2001 News Archives - The 9/11/2001 Terrorist Attack on America.
September 11, 3 B.C. Jesus Christ was born.
The September 11, 2001 image that defined America's new spirit, and redefined courage.
www.september11news.com   (387 words)

  
 Annotated Bibliography of Government Documents Related to the Threat of Terrorism & the Attacks of September 11, ...
Annotated Bibliography of Government Documents Related to the Threat of Terrorism and the Attacks of September 11, 2001 Government Documents Related to the Threat of Terrorism and the Attacks of September 11, 2001
Initially intended to point researchers to materials specifically concerning the events of 11 September 2001, the bibliography has grown to over 700 pages of entries representing a range of materials that, while spread across several decades and across large geographical regions, cannot be divorced from the phenomenon of terrorist acts committed against the U.S. continued...)
They show how the U.S. has dealt with terrorism in the past, the political circumstances of past terrorist incidents, how the U.S. has prepared for future incidents, present American weaknesses regarding the prevention of and reaction to violent acts, the likely nature of future attacks, and from whence future terrorist actions are likely to come.
www.odl.state.ok.us /usinfo/terrorism/911.htm   (387 words)

  
 Information about Afghanistan in the light of September 11 2001 attacks   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Responses to the attacks on the US on September 11
Like the majority of people, I have been horrified by the attacks on the World Trade Centre and the Pentagon and the crash of the fourth plane destined for another public building on September 11.
Over the past few weeks, I have received a variety of statements, which have moved me in a variety of ways and rather than just send them on by email and clog the internet, I have put them up here for those who are interested.
www.une.edu.au /campus/chaplaincy/uniting/usa.html   (208 words)

  
 TIME: Photos of the September 11 attacks and their aftermath
On Sept. 11, firefighter Mike Kehoe was photographed as he rushed up Tower One.
New Yorkers respond in the aftermath of the attack
Attack on the U.S. Headlines from newspapers around the world on the terrorist assault
www.time.com /time/photoessays/911   (756 words)

  
 PBS: America Responds : Coverage of Events of Tuesday, September 11, 2001
This Web site was maintained in the months immediately following the attacks, and now serves as an archive of related resources, analysis and discussion from that moment in time.
Explore these PBS resources related to the September 11 attacks and their aftermath:
NewsHour Extra invited students and teens to share their thoughts and feelings about September 11.
www.pbs.org /americaresponds   (410 words)

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