annexed Kuwait leading to the United Nations Security Council placing an embargo and penalty on Iraq. Hussein refused to follow with a resolution requiring him to withdraw, Operation Desert Storm began. On Tuesday, September 11th, 2001, the World Trade Centers in New York City and the Pentagon in Washington D.C. were struck by planes that were hijacked by terrorists. Nineteen hijackers seized four commercial U.S. jets and crashed them into American symbols of military and capitalism which troubled the nation
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9/11 World Trade Center Tragedy which is a big loss of one of the worst ever in the history of mankind. 9/11 World Trade Center Tragedy, This is a four-fold attack against the United States in Washington DC, New York City. The 9/11 attacks had both immediate and long-term economic impacts, some of which continue to this day. It was known that the U.S. economy was in a transition from an unsustainable to a sustainable rate of growth. But after the 9/11 attacks occurred nearly 70 percent of the jobs
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United States and the Security of Our Country since Pearl Harbor in 1941. At 8:46 Am Flight 11 jetliner Crashed into the 1st Trade Center (North Tower). That Created a Hole From the 92nd Floor All the way
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The tragedy of 9/11 weakened many of people’s emotions and fears. Knowing that they were in a place of danger made people more fearful than they had ever been. The 9/11 tragedy occurred, hints the name, on September 11,2001, at the Twin Towers, and the Pentagon. It all started around 9:45 A.M., after that everything kept going downhill (Norton). At the time of 9:45 A.M., Flight 77 crashed into the Pentagon, everyone in the White House evacuated. Around 10:10 A.M., a section of the Pentagon had collapsed
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Have you ever wanted to know more about the terrorist attack on September 11th, 2001. There are so many things to know about what happened on that day. Like when and how the towers fell down; from the burning jet fuel that melted the concrete and steel that supported the actual building.. Or how there were people that would jump out of the sides of the buildings instead of staying in. There are other things like how the people in the building and in the planes made heart wrenching phone calls to
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In London, at 8.50am on Thursday 7 July, three bombs exploded simultaneously, destroying sections of three different London Underground trains. One was detonated just outside Liverpool Street station, the other outside Edgware Road and the third between Kings Cross and Russell Square. Around an hour later at 9.50am there was an explosion on the top level of a double-decker bus in Tavistock Square near Kings Cross, caused by a similar device to the ones used on the underground. The explosions left
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It felt like it was a normal day in New York ,September 11,2001.It was sunny people were going to work.It seemed like any other day.But Everything changed in less than a second.Four planes were hijacked by a group al-qaeda. Which killed almost more than one thousand people. One day in New York there was an airplane that crashed but it wasn’t a regular plane crash.It was a terrorist attack.First one plane crashed in New York at 8:46am. The plane was traveling from Boston to Los Angeles
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Imagine entering a room filled with people of all ages yelling gibberish while their bodies shake violently. You look around and see a seizure palooza on the floor. Imagine a grown adult running around with his hands in the air like a five year old playing with his toy airplane while women, men, and children cry uncontrollably. If you are an optimist you would think that maybe this group of people just won a million dollars and are in shock. If you are a pessimist, you would say with certainty that
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terrorist group called al-Qaeda. It consisted of 19 al-Qaeda terrorists getting on four different planes: American Airlines Flight 11 and United Airlines Flight 175, which were hijacked and sent flying into the North and South Towers of the World Trade Center in New York City, American Airlines Flight 77 which crashed into the western side of the Pentagon in Arlington County, Virginia, and United Airlines Flight 93 which was intended to be flown into Washington D.C. but was taken over by a few passengers
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day known as 9/11, four commercial flights were hijacked by 19 terrorists from the group known as al-Qaeda. These planes were aimed toward major government buildings, including the World Trade Center in New York and the Pentagon near Washington, D.C. Two of them succeeded in colliding with the World Trade Center and another crashed in the Pentagon. This brutal attack sent shock waves through the nation. Considering nineteen out of nineteen terrorists were able to effortlessly breach security, the attack
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