Capitol, the Camp David presidential retreat in Maryland or one of several nuclear power plants along the eastern seaboard. Citizens of 78 countries died in New York, Washington, D.
At the World Trade Center, 2, died after the two planes slammed into the twin towers. That figure includes firefighters and paramedics, 23 New York City police officers and 37 Port Authority police officers who were struggling to complete an evacuation of the buildings and save the office workers trapped on higher floors.
At the Pentagon, people were killed, including 64 on American Airlines Flight 77, the airliner that struck the building. On Flight 93 , 44 people died when the plane crash-landed in Pennsylvania. Bush , who was in Florida at the time of the attacks and had spent the day being shuttled around the country because of security concerns, returned to the White House. These acts shatter steel, but they cannot dent the steel of American resolve. In a reference to the eventual U.
Within two months, U. Osama bin Laden, the mastermind behind the September 11th attacks, remained at large until May 2, , when he was finally tracked down and killed by U.
In June , then-President Barack Obama announced the beginning of large-scale troop withdrawals from Afghanistan; it took until August for all U. It was signed into law by President George W. Bush on November 25, Today, the Department of Homeland Security is a cabinet responsible for preventing terror attacks, border security, immigrations and customs and disaster relief and prevention.
Mohammed led propaganda operations for al Qaeda from In August , a U. On the first day of trading after the attacks, the market fell 7. The heaviest losses were in finance and air transportation, which accounted for 60 percent of lost jobs.
Thousands of first responders and people working and living in lower Manhattan near Ground Zero were exposed to toxic fumes and particles emanating from the towers as they burned and fell.
United Airlines flight struck the South Tower 17 minutes later. Both story towers collapsed within one hour and 41 minutes. This also led to the collapse of the other World Trade Centre buildings including 7 World Trade Centre , and other surrounding structures were also significantly damaged.
The fourth flight, United Airlines 93, did not hit its intended target — believed to be the White House or the US Capitol — after passengers on the plane attempted to regain control from the attackers.
It went down in a field near Shanksville, Pennsylvania. The 20th anniversary comes as the Taliban regain control of Afghanistan , after the US withdrew its remaining troops. All 64 people on the plane were killed, along with people in the building. The crash caused part of the building to collapse, and started a fire that took several days to put out.
Many of the survivors in the building were badly burned; people were injured in total. A fourth plane, United Airlines Flight 93 , met a different fate. Since all those who were on the flight perished, details on what happened are sketchy.
Suspecting that the hijacking they were experiencing was part of the same plot, a group of brave civilians stormed the cockpit. What happened next is not exactly clear, but voice recordings indicate that there was a violent struggle between the passengers and the terrorists. Shortly after the confrontation, the plane crashed into a field near Shanksville, Pennsylvania at am. All 44 people aboard were killed. Karl Fippinger said the ICC will continue pushing the building industry to go above minimum safety codes.
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