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Planning of the September 11 attacks. On the morning of September 11, 2001, 19 al-Qaeda terrorists hijacked four commercial passenger jet airliners, intentionally crashing two into the World Trade Center in New York City. The hijackers crashed a third airliner into the Pentagon. The fourth plane crashed in a field near Shanksville, Pennsylvania.
Click through newspaper covers from the September 11 attacks: Newspapers around the country and world took on the job of trying to make some sense of the attacks. Images of the burning twin towers ...
The 9-11 Commission uses the phrase, "performed poorly" to describe FDNY radios during the incident. Oral history files show that at least four channels were employed at WTC: Channel 5, (possibly also called Command 5), was to be used for Command in both Towers. Tactical 1 was to be used for Operations in the North Tower.
During the September 11 attacks of 2001, a series of four coordinated terrorist attacks by the Islamic terrorist group al-Qaeda, killed 2,977 people, injured over 6,000, and caused at least $10 billion in infrastructure and property damage. Multiple others have died due to 9/11-related cancer and respiratory diseases in the months and years ...
Planning of the September 11 attacks. On September 11, 2001, 19 al-Qaeda terrorists took control of four commercial aircraft and used them as suicide weapons in a series of four coordinated acts of terrorism to strike the World Trade Center in New York City, The Pentagon in Arlington County, Virginia, and an additional target in Washington, D.C ...
The 9/11 Commission Report at 9-11commission.gov (7.2 MB PDF) The 9/11 Commission Report public domain audiobook at LibriVox; XHTML version of the full 9/11 Commission Report (hand-converted XHTML format) Video of 9/11 events (split screen) supplemented with text from Commission Report findings
Nine, Ten: A September 11 Story, 2016 novel by American author Nora Raleigh Baskin. Saturday, 2005 "post 9/11" novel by English writer Ian McEwan. The Submission, 2011 novel by Amy Waldman. Sunrise Over Fallujah, 2008 novel by American author Walter Dean Myers. Towers Falling, 2016 novel by American author Jewell Parker Rhodes.
Planned military exercises. The military exercises ( war games) planned for September 11, 2001, included: Global Guardian, an annual command-level exercise organized by United States Strategic Command in cooperation with Space Command and NORAD. Primary purpose is to test and validate nuclear command and control and execution procedures.