Hijacked airplanes smashed into New York Metropolis’s World Commerce Heart and the Pentagon in Washington, D.C., on Sept. 11, 2001, in terrorist assaults carried out by the Islamist group al-Qaida. The World Commerce Heart’s Twin Towers collapsed lower than 90 minutes later.
Almost 3,000 folks had been killed within the assaults.
A fourth airplane additionally headed to the U.S. capital crashed right into a Pennsylvania subject outdoors of Shanksville, when the passengers fought the hijackers in an try to regain management of the cockpit.
Nineteen hijackers died after they commandeered the planes to make use of as weapons.
The chief of al-Qaida, Osama bin Laden, had created the extremist group in Afghanistan after the 1989 withdrawal of Soviet troops from the nation. He opposed the presence of U.S. troops in Saudi Arabia and American coverage within the Center East amongst different grievances towards the West. Bin Laden was killed through the Obama administration by a U.S. assault on the home the place he was hiding in Pakistan.
The person accused of being the mastermind behind the assaults is Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, who continues to be being held at Guantanamo Bay with 4 others, charged with conspiracy, homicide and terrorism. They face the loss of life penalty. Jury choice for a trial earlier than a navy tribunal was to have begun in January however has been delayed due to the coronavirus pandemic and different points.
Sources: NBC New York, The Nationwide 9/11 Pentagon Memorial, Pals of Flight 93
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