At nine AM on September the 11th American Airlines flight 11, carrying eighty-one passengers and eleven crew members, slammed into the North Tower of the World Trade Center in the heart of New York City. About Fifteen minutes later, United States Airline flight 175 from Boston to Los Angeles with fifty-six passengers and nine crew members on board, crashed into the south tower. Both towers eventually collapsed. .
A half hour after the second crash, American Airlines flight 77, took off from Washington, D.C.'s Dulles Airport on route to Los Angeles, California carrying fifty-eight passengers and six crew members was rerouted and crashed into the Pentagon instead. Less than an hour after the third crash United Flight on route from Newark, New Jersey, to San Francisco crashed near Shanksville, Pennsylvania with thirty-eight passengers and seven crew aboard. It is believed that this plane was headed for the white house.(CNN).
Huge chunks of debris falling from remains of the World Trade Center continued falling six hours after the crash. Firefighters could not get closer than two blocks. It is believed that a total of firefighters, airline passengers and crew were killed. .
After all these happenings all US Embassies and US forces were put on the highest alert. President Bush called the crashes "A national tragedy" and says, "Make no mistake: The United States will hunt down and punish those responsible for these cowardly acts".
The united states had officially blames Osama Bin Laden and Islamic racialist of the crime. Osama has had a history with the United States. In 1990 he offered to use his forces in Saudi Arabia, after Iraq invaded Kuwait, to defend that Saudi border. The Saudi Arabian government rejected his offer and instead turned to American troops. Bin Laden has since issued at least two attacks on America. The first in August 1996 where he attacked US troops in Saudi Arabia and Somalia.
