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22 years ago, America saw its most horrific terror attacks ever on September 11, 2001. In the space of less than 90 minutes on a late summer morning, the world changed. Nearly 3,000 people were killed that day and the United States soon found itself in the midst of what would become the longest war in its history.      #911 #remembering911 #thewaronterror #thedaytheworldchanged #alqaeda #osamabinladen                  ~PR.151~HT.96~

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00:00 Today, our fellow citizens, our way of life, our very freedom came under attack

00:05 in a series of deliberate and deadly terrorist acts.

00:12 22 years ago, America saw its most horrific terror attacks ever on September 11, 2001.

00:26 In the space of less than 90 minutes on a late summer morning, the world changed.

00:37 Nearly 3,000 people were killed that day and the United States soon found itself in the midst of

00:43 what would become the longest war in its history. The events of 9/11 not only reshaped the global

00:50 response to terrorism, but raised new and troubling questions about security, privacy,

00:55 and treatment of prisoners. It reshaped US immigration policies and led to a surge in

01:00 discrimination, racial profiling, and hate crimes. On September 11, 2001, 2,977 people were killed in

01:11 the deadliest terrorist attacks in American history. Two planes hijacked by Islamic jihadists

01:17 vowing to kill all Americans plowed into both towers at the World Trade Center in New York.

01:22 Another plane was flown into the Pentagon in Washington, DC.

01:27 A fourth plane, presumably headed for the White House or the US Capitol,

01:36 was heroically diverted by passengers and ended up crashing in an empty field in Pennsylvania.

01:42 After reports of the first plane hitting the North Tower,

01:45 millions watched the second plane hit the South Tower on live television.

01:49 It was a terrifying, startling, and humbling event for America. The 9/11 attacks were the

01:59 deadliest on American soil and the sense of outrage was enormous. The attacks in New York

02:04 occurred in the country's busiest city on a busy workday, and the staggered nature of the attacks

02:10 meant that news footage captured almost everything as it happened, ensuring that millions of

02:15 Americans saw the events precisely as they unfolded. On September 11, 2001, groups of

02:25 attackers boarded four domestic aircraft at three East Coast airports, and soon after takeoff,

02:31 they disabled the crews. The hijackers then took control of the aircraft, all large and bound for

02:36 the West Coast, with full loads of fuel. At 8.46am local time, the first plane, American Airlines

02:43 Flight 11, which had originated from Boston, was crashed into the North Tower of the World Trade

02:48 Center in New York City. The second plane, United Airlines Flight 175, also from Boston,

02:56 stuck the South Tower 17 minutes later. At this point, there was no doubt that the United States

03:02 was under attack. Each structure was badly damaged by the impact and erupted into flames. Office

03:08 workers, who were trapped above the points of impact, in some cases leapt to their deaths

03:12 rather than face the infernos now raging inside the towers. At 9.59am, the World Trade Center's

03:20 heavily damaged South Tower collapsed, and the tower fell 29 minutes later. Clouds of smoke and

03:27 debris quickly filled the streets of Lower Manhattan. A number of other buildings adjacent

03:31 to the twin towers suffered serious damage, and several subsequently fell. Fires at the World

03:37 Trade Center's sites moulded for more than three months. Although to many Americans, 9/11 seemed

03:44 like a random act of terror, the roots of the event had been developing for years. A combination

03:49 of factors in the late 1990s led to the catastrophic event. These factors included regional

03:55 conditions in the Middle East that motivated the perpetrators, as well as intelligence lapses

04:00 and failures that left the United States vulnerable. Osama Bin Laden was relatively

04:05 unknown in the United States before 9/11, even as he was becoming popular and gathering followers

04:11 and fame in the Middle East during the 1990s. In 1988, he was one of the founders of Al-Qaeda,

04:17 the militant Islamic terrorist organization that carried out the 9/11 attacks. Bin Laden called for

04:23 indiscriminate killing of all Americans who, he claimed, were the worst thieves in the world today.

04:28 Throughout the 20th century, a wave of secular nationalist revolutions swept through the Middle

04:34 East, taking root in Egypt, Libya, Iraq, Yemen, and other countries. Young men who were struggling to

04:40 find decent jobs and start their own families in corrupt oil states provided easy targets for

04:46 radicalization. Bin Laden's message that America was the head of the snake and the root of all

04:51 society's problems went down well with the discontented poor. By the mid-1990s, Bin Laden

04:57 was the head of Al-Qaeda, a multifaceted and highly developed terrorist network carrying out

05:02 attack after attack on Americans in the Middle East. It was a new type of terrorism to which

05:07 the US intelligence agencies struggled to adapt. An attack such as 9/11 was totally beyond the

05:12 imagination of the American intelligence agencies, which is why the country was caught completely

05:17 unaware. The immediate response to 9/11 was the George W. Bush administration's war on terror,

05:23 which began in Afghanistan as a retaliation against Al-Qaeda for carrying out the attack.

05:28 The Bush administration soon expanded the war on terror into Iraq, and the consequences of

05:38 these wars continue to affect the Middle East to this day. The US-led coalition in Afghanistan

05:43 dismantled the Taliban and Al-Qaeda infrastructure in 2001, captured 9/11 operational leader Khalid

05:49 Sheikh Mohammed in 2003, and killed 9/11 mastermind Osama Bin Laden in 2011. Although the CIA took 10

05:57 years to find Bin Laden, US intelligence efforts targeted and eliminated terrorist leaders time

06:02 after time. There were domestic long-term effects of 9/11 as well. Thousands of people struggled

06:07 with cancer and lasting chronic health problems relating to the toxicity from ground zero. The

06:13 site where the twin towers used to stand. The September 11 attacks also changed American air

06:18 travel as airlines began to require stringent security checks designed to prevent the types

06:24 of weapons the hijackers used from slipping through. Finally, the 9/11 attacks resulted

06:29 in changes to the federal government and an expansion of executive power. A new Cabinet

06:34 Department, the Department of Homeland Security, was created. The intelligence community was

06:39 consolidated under the Director of National Intelligence to improve coordination between

06:44 various agencies and departments.

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