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Summary
Eight years have been passed to September 11, 2001, a day that changed lives around the world. Eight years ago, Al-Qaeda militants riding hijacked airliners hit the World Trade Centre and Pentagon. The United States responded to the attacks by launching a war on terrorism. The September 11 attacks were a series of coordinated suicide attacks by Al-Qaeda upon the United States on September 11, 2001. On that morning, 19 Al-Qaeda terrorists hijacked four commercial passenger jet airliners. The hijackers intentionally crashed two of the airliners into the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center in New York City, killing everyone on board and many others working in the buildings. Both buildings collapsed within two hours, destroying nearby buildings and damaging others. The hijackers crashed a third airliner into the Pentagon in Arlington, Virginia, just outside of Washington, DC. The fourth plane crashed into a field near Shanksville in rural Pennsylvania, after some of its passengers and flight crew attempted to retake control of the plane, which the hijackers had redirected towards Washington, DC. In total 2,993 people, including the hijackers, died in the attacks. The US announced that Al-Qaeda and Osama bin Laden orchestrated and put forth the attacks on 9/11 and launched the war on terror.
