The passengers fought the four hijackers and are suspected to have attacked the cockpit with a fire extinguisher. The plane then flipped over and sped toward the ground at upwards of miles per hour, crashing in a rural field near Shanksville in western Pennsylvania at a.
All 44 people aboard were killed. Its intended target is not known, but theories include the White House , the U. Capitol, the Camp David presidential retreat in Maryland or one of several nuclear power plants along the eastern seaboard. Citizens of 78 countries died in New York, Washington, D.
At the World Trade Center, 2, died after the two planes slammed into the twin towers. That figure includes firefighters and paramedics, 23 New York City police officers and 37 Port Authority police officers who were struggling to complete an evacuation of the buildings and save the office workers trapped on higher floors.
At the Pentagon, people were killed, including 64 on American Airlines Flight 77, the airliner that struck the building. On Flight 93 , 44 people died when the plane crash-landed in Pennsylvania. Bush , who was in Florida at the time of the attacks and had spent the day being shuttled around the country because of security concerns, returned to the White House.
These acts shatter steel, but they cannot dent the steel of American resolve. In a reference to the eventual U. Within two months, U.
Osama bin Laden, the mastermind behind the September 11th attacks, remained at large until May 2, , when he was finally tracked down and killed by U. In June , then-President Barack Obama announced the beginning of large-scale troop withdrawals from Afghanistan; it took until August for all U. It was signed into law by President George W. Bush on November 25, Today, the Department of Homeland Security is a cabinet responsible for preventing terror attacks, border security, immigrations and customs and disaster relief and prevention.
Mohammed led propaganda operations for al Qaeda from In August , a U. On the first day of trading after the attacks, the market fell 7. The heaviest losses were in finance and air transportation, which accounted for 60 percent of lost jobs. Thousands of first responders and people working and living in lower Manhattan near Ground Zero were exposed to toxic fumes and particles emanating from the towers as they burned and fell.
The Victim Compensation Fund was set to stop accepting claims in December The first memorials to September 11 came in the immediate wake of the attacks, with candlelight vigils and flower tributes at U.
For the first anniversary of the attacks in New York City in , two bright columns of light were shot up into the sky from where the Twin Towers once stood.
On clear nights, the beams are visible from over 60 miles away. And in that sense, I think the words of President Biden — and the deeds — of a fixed time for withdrawal from Afghanistan were a mistake and were an error in judgment that I think could affect the United States over the coming years. The president is likely to speak publicly on Saturday, but "words are not going to make a difference at this point," said Norman Ornstein, a senior fellow at the American Enterprise Institute, a conservative public policy research group in Washington.
And we're going to try to avoid making mistakes of that sort in the future. But he cautions that Americans should look to history to see how this will play out — not to , but to , when President Ronald Reagan decided to withdraw American forces from Lebanon months after a bombing killed U.
This, Ornstein said, is the fundamental difference between the America of today and the America of past decades. Americans have continued to broadly back the president's decision to withdraw from Afghanistan in recent public opinion polls, but they have also criticized Biden over how his administration handled the evacuation. Search Search. Home United States U. VOA Africa Listen live.
VOA Newscasts Latest program. VOA Newscasts. Previous Next. America Marks 20 Years Since Sept. He is joined at the White House by the firefighters who are featured in the image, from left, Eisengrein, Johnson and McWilliams. A crew member helps ready the car at the Daytona International Speedway in The image can also be found on T-shirts, like this one worn by Venita Bradford at a memorial service in Energy, Illinois, on September 11, A version of the photograph appears on a commemorative knife.
A snow globe owned by collector Josef Kardinal depicts the flag raising at ground zero. He is seen in at his home in Nuremberg, Germany. A foot-tall bronze monument named "To Lift a Nation" depicts the famous scene. Pictured at a warehouse in , the sculpture is now part of the permanent collection at the National Fallen Firefighters Memorial Park in Emmitsburg, Maryland. The iconic image has also been turned into a pair of earrings. Photographer Thomas E. Franklin sits at his work station in Hackensack, New Jersey, in Nineteen men hijacked four fuel-loaded US commercial airplanes bound for west coast destinations.
The attack was orchestrated by al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden. The Victims. Read More. Of those who perished during the initial attacks and the subsequent collapses of the Towers, were New York City firefighters, 23 were New York City police officers and 37 were officers at the Port Authority. The victims ranged in age from two to 85 years. At the Pentagon in Washington, people were killed when hijacked American Airlines Flight 77 crashed into the building.
Near Shanksville, Pennsylvania, 40 passengers and crew members aboard United Airlines Flight 93 died when the plane crashed into a field. It is believed that the hijackers crashed the plane in that location, rather than their unknown target, after the passengers and crew attempted to retake control of the flight deck.
September 11, - a. The time between the first attack and the collapse of both World Trade Center Towers is minutes.
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