Event · Twenty-first century · United States
September 11 attacks
2001
On September 11, 2001, nineteen al-Qaeda hijackers seized four American airliners and used them as weapons against the World Trade Center, the Pentagon, and, but for the passengers of Flight 93, the United States Capitol. 2,977 people were killed.
Facts
- Date
- September 11, 2001.
- Source: 9/11 Commission Report
- The dead
- 2,977, not counting the nineteen hijackers: 2,753 in New York, 184 at the Pentagon, 40 on Flight 93.
- Source: National September 11 Memorial & Museum
- First responders lost
- 441 from more than thirty agencies: 343 FDNY, 37 Port Authority Police, 23 NYPD.
- Source: National September 11 Memorial & Museum
- The attackers
- Nineteen al-Qaeda operatives: fifteen Saudis, two Emiratis, one Egyptian, one Lebanese. The operation was approved by Usama bin Ladin and built by Khalid Sheikh Mohammed.
- Source: 9/11 Commission Report
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Articles
Dominick PezzuloA Port Authority officer with thirteen months on the job went into the World Trade Center concourse on September 11 and spent his last half hour moving rubble for a trapped teammate instead of climbing out.Read Flight 93The passengers and crew of United Airlines Flight 93 learned what the hijackers had done in New York and Washington, voted, and fought for the cockpit over a Pennsylvania field.Read Orio PalmerBattalion Chief Orio Palmer climbed thirty seven flights of the South Tower to the 78th floor sky lobby and was still giving orders on the radio two minutes before the collapse.Read Rick RescorlaRick Rescorla had drilled Morgan Stanley for another attack on the towers for years, led thousands down the South Tower stairs on September 11, then went back up.Read Welles CrowtherA twenty four year old equities trader and volunteer firefighter with a red bandana spent his last hour carrying the wounded down the South Tower stairs.Read America WoundedSeptember 11 was an Islamist terror attack, not a weather event, and the debt it left is carried in names, clock times, and the refusal to blur murder into abstraction.Read Name the murderers, honor the resolveName the nineteen men who did it, name the chain of command that sent them, and honor the resolve that answered them the same morning.Read
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