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Chapter 6: Genealogy of Islamic terrorism (11)
156 The world
trembled with the September 11 attacks (3/4)
In the morning of 11th September 2001, American Airlines Flight 11 from Boston to Los Angeles was hijacked at 8:14 am. Hijackers grasped the control stick and changed the course to the south. The plane crushed into the North Tower of the New York World Trade Center Building at 8:46. At first people could not understand what happened. Many people thought that the small aircraft crashed with the manipulation in error. However, following the American Airlines, United Airlines Flight 175 headed to the same destination from the same airport was hijacked in the same manner. It crushed into the South Tower of the World Trade Center Building. TV news which covered the first incident relayed the next incident. Not only citizens in New York but also people around the world witnessed live broadcast. It was an unbelievable scene never seen before. Only after a while they understood that violent terrorist incident had to be taken place.
Tragedies continued furthermore. American Airlines Flight
77 from Washington to Los Angeles was also hijacked at around 8:40. It crashed
into the headquarter of the Department of Defense (commonly known as the
Pentagon due to a pentagonal star shape). In addition, United Airlines Flight
93 from Newark to San Francisco was hijacked at 9:28. But passengers in the
airplane had acknowledged what happened at the World Trade Center Building in
New York. They struggled with hijackers in the plane. The plane was crashed on
the ground at 240 KM northwest of Washington DC. It was at 10:03 am. Hijackers were
believed to target at the White House or Parliament Building. The four
terrorist attacks of simultaneous hijackings were the biggest disaster in the
history with 3,000 death and 6,300 injuries.
(To be continued
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(From an ordinary citizen in the
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