On this day before 24 years, 11. September 2001. The worst terrorist attacks have happened in the history of the United States who changed the whole world.
There were four passenger airplanes that became a weapon in the hands of the terrorist Al-Qaeda. The consequences of that day continue to feel in American society, international politics and security practices around the world.
People around the world over the age of 30 are remembering where they were when they heard of, then followed the most terrible attack on the United States and in real time.
Sequence of events
Junct 11, September 2001, 19 Al-Qaeda members were abducted by four passenger planes and redirected them towards his metals. At 8:46 the first aircraft, Boeing 767 American Airlines, hit the northern Tower of the World Trade Center (WTC) in New York, between 94. and 98. Floor. At that moment, it was still thought to be an accident.
But a few minutes later, the white house officials received confirmation that it was an enemy attack when another plane hit the southern tower. Both tower, the so-called “Gemini” in Manhattan, soon collapsed.
The third airplane scored into the Pentagon, the heart of the US Army, while the fourth crashes in the field in the Fednes Laters, after the brave passengers opposed the kidnappers. About 2,977 people were killed in total – including civilians, police officers, firefighters and passengers.
The scenes followed the entire world: collapse the skyscrapers, chaos on the streets of Manhattan, those thousands of killed and missing.
At that moment, the United States in George W. Busha (George W. Bush) enters a new age – the time “war against terror”, which soon expanded to the entire western world.
Wars in Afghanistan and Iraq
Already in October 2001., the United States and the Allies have launched an Afghanistan with the aim of demolishing the Taliban regime, which provided a refuge for Osami Bin Laden, made by the most wanted man in the world, and Al-Kaida the most powerful terrorist organization.
Although the operation at first was considered successful, the war was more difficult for two decades, leaving Afghanistan to the destructed and unstable land.
Two years later, Washington launched an invasion and Iraq, justifying that Iraqi President Saddam Hussein allegedly possessed weapons for mass destruction and is associated with Al-Qaeda.
Six weeks after the beginning of the war, 1. May 2003, President George Bush triumphantly declared the end of large combat operations on the Abraham Lincoln aircraft carrier. Saddam Hussein then overthrown and executed on the 30th. December 2006. years, on the day of the Kurban-Bajram.
Until then, according to American military studies, the coalition was led by the United States exactly 29,166 bombs and missiles. Much of the infrastructure in the country was in ruins. According to the distinguished British NGO Iraq Body Count, the lives then lost more than 7,000 civilians.
The war in Iraq took hundreds of thousands of lives, destabilized the Middle East and created space to strengthen new extremist groups, including the so-called Islamic state (ISIS).
Bin Laden, who at first denied the responsibility of his attack organization, was killed after ten years of hiding, in Pakistan, in a long planned Pentagon’s military action.
Radical measures
Attacks 11. September led to the introduction of radical security measures. Even in 2001, the American Congress voted the controversial Patriotic Law (Patriot ACT), which enabled mass monitoring of communications, financial transaction monitoring and the suspects of suspects without a court order.
In particular, he became prison in Guantanam, where prisoners were held without trial and undergo “reinforced tests”, ie – torture, writes Avaz
