9/11
WHO IS OSAMA BIN LADEN AND WHAT GROUP IS HE FROM?
Osama Bin Laden is the leader of the terrorist group, al-Qaeda.
He was born March 10 1957. His real name is Osama bin
Mohammed bin Awad bin Laden. The group Al-Qaeda has
been doing attacks since 1988. There isn’t a true estimate of
how big the group is because they are so secretive of what
they do and they are spread out across the world. He and his
group destroyed the twin towers in America and since then,
the American soldiers went out to hunt for Osama Bin Laden.
He was shot by an American soldier in Pakistan, 2 May 2011.
Osama and his group have many terrorist attacks to other
people. But 9/11 was the most disastrous. Al-Qaeda has done
many attacks. Al-Qaeda’s first attack was in Yemen, 1992. They
blew up 2 hotels where they believed some American troops
were staying. 2 Australian tourists died and Osama Bin Laden
claimed a couple of years later that he was responsible. Also
9/11. The twin towers (world trade centre) collapsed after 2
planes flew into them. The pentagon was
also damaged. Nearly 3000 people died that day. Al-Qaeda
also attacked Bali in 2002. 202 people died including 88
Australian tourists and 38
Indonesian citizens. 200 more people were injured. Their last
attack was
January 2011 in Iraq. There were continuous suicide bombs and
car bombs.
133 people were dead.
WHO WERE THE PEOPLE THAT HIJACKED THE PLANES?
There were 19 hijackers from AlQaeda and they split up into four
groups. Each group also had an
additional pilot trained hijacker. The
four men from Al-Qaeda were called
muscle hijackers. One World Trade
Centre was attacked first. Mohamed
Atta, Waleed al-Shehri , Wail alShehri, Abdulaziz al-Omari and
Satam al-Suqami were the muscle
hijackers who murded the pilots and
crew and took control of the plane
that smashed into One World Trade
Centre.
On the second plane to Two World Trade Centre was Marwan al-Shehhi , Fayez
Banihammad, Mohand al-Shehri , Hamza al-Ghamdi and Ahmed al-Ghamdi. The Pentagon
was also damaged that day. There was a fourth plane also heading for the White House but
it got intercepted, and crashed into a field. The hijackers did not breach the security system,
they slipped through their loop-holes. Security didn't challenge the men even with their
weapons. Since this day, security and every airport have gotten much more stricter and
applying more rules, protecting the world from anything like 9/11.
There were 2996
people dead and
more than 6,000
injured on 9/11.
Everyone who
was working in
the buildings, on
the planes that
crashed into the
buildings and the
hijackers were in
great danger of
death. There were
246 people on the 4
planes that
crashed into the
building, and noone survived on
the planes. 2606
people died in the
Manhattan towers
and 125 at the
Pentagon.
HOW MANY CASUALTIES WERE THERE?
55 military personnel were killed at the Pentagon. More than
90% of the people in the towers were higher than where the
impact was. There were many more casualties in the north
tower because it was struck first. The people in the south
tower started evacuating in fear of their lives.
WHY DID AL-QAEDA ATTACK AMERICA?
These reasons are the most probable and likely reasons for
the Al-Qaeda attacks on 9/11.Osama Bin Laden’s followers
“consider themselves an island of true believers surrounded
by a sea of iniquity and think that the future of religion itself,
and therefore the world depends on them and their battle.”
Therefore, America represented everything that was bad in
the world. Osama Bin Laden doesn’t like Israel and America
supports Israel financially and helps fund their war against
the Palestinians. America also supported Israel when they
invaded Lebanon in 1982 which annoyed Osama Bin Laden.
Bin Laden said, “What America is tasting now is something
insignificant compared to what we have tasted for scores of
years. The Islamic world has been tasting this humiliation and
this degradation for 80 years… Neither America nor the
people who live in it will dream of security before we live in
it in Palestine, and not before the infidel armies leave the
land of Muhammad.” Because of Bin Laden's hate for Israel
and America supported Israel, he felt they had attacked him
he hated Israel so much. 9/11 was kind of revenge from Bin
Laden to America.
WHAT WERE THE TWIN TOWERS USED FOR?
The twin towers were used for the World
Trade Centre. The World Trade Centre
was a place to help world trade. 289
members from 85 countries united in this
building to talk about world trade. They
helped promote world trade, tried to
make better relationships between
countries using trade, and many more
things. The twin towers suffered a fire,
bombing and a robbery a few years
before the al-Qaeda attacks. They were
destroyed on September 11 with North
tower being destroyed first then South
tower 17 minutes later. The Twin Towers
are being rebuilt. Construction started in
2006 and will be completed in 2014. The
towers will be 104 storeys high and has
cost $3.8 billion dollars. They will be 1776
feet high and will be called the Freedom
Towers. The world trade centre will be in
the Freedom Towers.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Osama_bin_Laden
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Trade_Center
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hijackers_in_the_September_11_attacks