9/11/01
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The Attacks
Islamic calendar date: Jumada-al-Thani 23, 1422 or 6/23/22;
al Qaeda militants call this the "Holy Tuesday" operation.
- Flights:
- American Airlines Flight 11 (Boeing 767, bound
for Los Angeles), departed Boston 7:45 AM EDT, crashed into the
110-story north
tower of the WTC with 92 people onboard (81 passengers and 11
crew) at 8:45 AM EDT - "Final
Minutes Captured in Phone Call"
- United Airlines Flight 175 (Boeing 767, bound for
Los Angeles),departed Boston 7:58 AM EDT, crashed into the
110-story south
tower of the WTC with 65 people onboard (56 passengers and 9 crew)
at 9:05 AM EDT
- American Airlines Flight 77 (Boeing 757, bound
for Los Angeles), departed Washington DC 8:10 AM EDT, crashed into the
Pentagon with 64 people onboard (58 passengers and 6 crew) at 9:39
AM EDT
- United Airlines Flight 93 (Boeing 757, bound for
San Francisco), departed Newark 8:42 AM EDT, crashed into Stony
Creek Township, PA with 44
people onboard (37 passengers and 7 crew) at 10:03 AM EDT - "Heroes
Stand Up Even in the Hour of Their Deaths" Captured
al Qaeda leader Abu Zubaydah said the
plane was headed for the White House.
- World Trade
Center, NY:
- 2,823 dead or missing; 7/13/02
- Included in the figures are 343 firefighters, 23 police
officers, 27 Port Authority police, and the victims
from Flights 11 & 175; hijackers are excluded.
- Also included in the figures are 494 foreigners
from 83 different countries.
- The two planes each carried 10,000 gallons of
fuel, causing fires that burned at over 2000 degrees.
- About 1,229
victims have been identified so far. 7/13/02
- Pentagon:
- Victim databases maintained by:
- Out of 662 people who have filed a claim so far, the
first nine awards were made from the government's victims'
compensation fund. Filing a claim requires applicants to
give up their right to sue the airlines, although they can still sue
alleged terrorists. The average cash award is $1.36 million,
which is the amount remaining after deducting "outside income
sources like life insurance." 8/23/02
- Business Casualties
- World
Trade Center Disaster Information by NY State Insurance Department
- Planning
for the attacks took two and a half years, according to Khalid Shaikh
Mohammed, one of the planners. The first targets planned were
nuclear facilities in the US, but it was ruled out for fear that it
would get out of control - but it has not been ruled out for the
future. June/02
- Nine
of the 19 hijackers were singled out by airport security measures
but were still allowed to board the planes that later crashed.
- The FBI
is putting together a paper trail of credit card purchases made by
the hijackers on days directly preceding the attacks. 27 credit
cards have been traced to the 19 hijackers. Purchases included
at least four GPS devices and "flight deck simulator videos for Boeing 747, 757, 767 and Airbus A3-20
aircraft." 5/22/02
- Arizona-based FBI agents advised their head office in
Washington D.C. about suspicious
Middle Eastern flight students in July 2001. None of the
"suspicious men" listed in the memo were connected to the
9/11 attacks, according to the FBI. If that's the case, then
there are a lot more suicide terrorist-pilots out there, trained for
many years prior. In 1996/7, a Phoenix businessman advised the
FBI that "one or more Middle Eastern pilots were training or working in his state and appeared
suspicious...very odd that the Algerian man was involved in aviation."
In 1995, Filipino intelligence revealed that "several Middle Eastern pilots were training at American flight schools and at least one had
proposed hijacking a commercial jet and crashing it into federal buildings."
- In a videotape recorded in December 2001, Osama
bin Laden proudly tells of the psychological and financial damage
the 9/11 attacks did to the US: besides the loss of buildings, "...the percentage of loss at the Wall Street was 16%.
... Unprecedented in the history of the stock market since it opened more than 30 years ago.
The capital is $4 trillion. To learn the amount of their loss, we multiply this number by 16 percent. This should equal $640 billion.
This number is equal to the Sudanese budget for 640 years. This is what they lost because of God's support and generosity. One blessed attack within one hour, and they lose all this.
The daily national income equals $20 billion. In the first week after the attacks and after the psychological shock,
... people did not go to work. So if we multiply $20 billion by 7 days, that is $140 billion.
...airline companies are getting rid of their employees... more than 170,000 are out of
jobs. ..."May God accept the martyrs' actions and offer them the highest level of paradise."
4/17/02
- Two of the hijackers, Khalid
Almihdhar and Nawaf Alhazmi, had been watched by the CIA for almost
two years prior to 9/11. The two had attended an al Qaeda
meeting in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia at the first of 2000. Alhazmi
flew from the meeting to Los Angeles in March 2000. A third man
at the meeting, Tawfiq Attash Khallad, was a suspect in the USS Cole
in Yemen in October 2000, and at that time, Almihdhar and Alhazmi
could have been placed on a "watch list", but were
not. In fact, Almihdhar reentered the US in July 2001. The
two weren't put on a watch list until three weeks before the attacks.
- The National Security Agency intercepted two messages
the day before the attacks, but did not translate them until the day
after the attacks. The messages: "The match
begins tomorrow" and "Tomorrow is zero hour".
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Video image of first plane hitting WTC tower on 9/11/01. Mohamed
Atta photo upper left; text reads "voice of Osama bin Laden".
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Tribute Sites and Image
Collections for the 9/11/01 Tragedy
- White House
Commission on Remembrance - Excellent general historical
site. Includes listing of numbers of Americans
killed/wounded in major wars. Established by Congress, the
Commission's main purpose is "to sustain the American spirit through acts of remembrance..."
Listen to the Commission's
official Memorial Day Anthem, "On This Day".
- September
11, 2001...911
- "We
Painted a Flag"
- God
Speaks Worldwide Memorial
- "Can't Cry Hard
Enough",
a tribute to the victims
- "Canine
Search and Rescue Tribute", a tribute to the 250+ K9 units
- "Naked
Skyline (We're All United)"
- "A
Tribute to America"
- "In
Remembrance"
- 9/11/01
Memorial candle
- "Met
in the Stairwell"
- "A
Tribute to 9.11.01"
- 9/11 Digital
Archive
- MSNBC
Images for America Strikes Back
- CNN's Special Report on War Against Terror,
an excellent image
gallery of the 9/11 terrorist attacks, including very moving video
clips, still images, interactive maps of the attack sites,
and 3-D animations
- CNN's In Depth Special Memorial
- CNN's America
Remembers a year later
- Daniel Pearl was a foreign correspondent covering the
war on terrorism. While in Pakistan he "was retracing the steps of
'shoe bomber' Richard Reid and hoped to meet with militant extremists when he was abducted in Karachi on Jan. 23, 2002.
Several weeks elapsed without word of his fate when he was confirmed to be dead on Feb. 21.
Four of the kidnappers were convicted of murder on July 15, including mastermind Omar
Saeed Sheik." The Daniel
Pearl Foundation was created by his family and
the South Asian Journalists Association (SAJA) also posts a memorial
page for Daniel Pearl.
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