This year marks the 19th anniversary of the 9/11 terror attack in which nearly 3,000 people were killed when hijackers flew commercial aeroplanes into New York’s World Trade Centre, the Pentagon and a field near Shanksville, Pennsylvania.
The September 11 attacks had shaken the United States and had a huge impact globally as it was one of the most dreadful attacks ever made by the terrorist group al-Qaeda.
Who was responsible for the attack:
Nineteen hijackers took over the four planes involved in the attacks.
They were all members of Islamist terrorist group Al-Qaeda, led by Saudi Arabian Osama Bin Laden, who founded the organisation in the late 1980s.
Bin Laden initially denied involvement in the attacks stating “I stress that I have not carried out this act” five days after the attacks.
Shortly before the 2004 US election, he admitted responsibility for the attacks in a video statement.
Osama Bin Laden was killed by US special forces in 2011.
Keynotes on 9/11 attack:
In 102 minutes, 2,977 people were killed in attacks in New York City, Washington and Shanksville, Pennsylvania.
Of that number, 343 were New York City firefighters, 23 were New York City police officers and 37 were officers at the New York Port Authority.
The age of the victims ranged from 2 years to 85 years old. Eighty per cent of the victims were men.
When the buildings fell, they created 1.8 million tons of debris. It took 3.1 million hours of labour to remove it.
