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• A series of coordinated suicide attacks by al-Qaeda upon the United States.

• Three buildings in the World Trade Center in New York Complex collapsed.

Before After

• The reasons: The US government launching a military and intelligence campaign against al-Qaeda and other terrorist organizations.

Time and Location

• Early in the morning on September 11, 2001, nineteen hijackers took control of four commercial airlines.

• At 8:46 am, American Airlines Flight 11 was crashed into the World Trade Center's North Tower

North Tower

• United Airlines Flight 175 which hit the South Tower at 9:03 a.m.

South Tower

• American Airlines Flight 77 crashed into thePentagon at 9:37 a.m.

Pentagon

• A fourth flight, United Airlines Flight 93 crashed near Shanksville, Pennsylvania.

Pennsylvania

Weeks after the attack, the estimated death toll was over 6,000. The city was only able to identify remains for approximately 1,600 of the victims at the World Trade Center.

The medical examiner's office also collected "about 10,000 unidentified bone and tissue fragments that cannot be matched to the list of the dead"

• In addition to the 110-floor Twin Towers of the World Trade Center itself, numerous other buildings at the World Trade were damaged.

• Center site were destroyed or badly damaged.

• Communications equipment atop the North Tower were also destroyed.

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