September 11, 2001 attacks (Summary)
The September 11, 2001 attacks were a series of coordinated Islamist terrorist attacks commited in the United States on Tuesday, September 11, 2001. According to the official 9/11 Commission Report, nineteen men affiliated with al-Qaeda, a network of militant Islamist organizations, hijacked four commercial airliners. They crashed one into each of the two tallest towers of the World Trade Center in Manhattan, New York City, shortly after which both towers collapsed. The third aircraft crashed into the U.S. Department of Defense headquarters, the Pentagon, in Arlington County, Virginia, just outside the nation's capital, Washington, D.C.. The fourth plane crashed into a rural field near Shanksville, Pennsylvania following passenger resistance. The attacks had major ramifications around the world, with the United States declaring a war on terrorism in response and launching an invasion of Afghanistan to depose the Taliban regime, who had been accused of willfully harboring terrorists. Certainly, the attacks were the most lethal ever carried out in the United States. The death number of 2,986 exceeded the 2,403 dead after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941. In addition, the death of at least one person from lung disease was ruled by a medical examiner to be a result of exposure to dust from the World Trade Center's collapse, as rescue and recovery workers were exposed to airborne contaminants following the World Trade Center's collapse.
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Personal Opinion
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Some people believe that only through violence they will have political freedom and human rights, they think that only using destructive force will eliminate unwanted rulers. Also, some governments use terror to maintain order and to keep peoples under control. But if it is true that terrorism is an effective tool to obtain a real social reform, it should produce peace, prosperity, and stability. After a while, we realize that violence and fear rule over everybody's life. Have we seen any positive results from terrorism? The truth is that terrorism breaks down respect for life and leads to bloodshed and cruelty. Because of their pain, victims often retaliate, which leads to further repression and, in turn, to more retaliation. The September 11th attacks are without any hesitation the most significant events to have occurred so far in the 21st Century in terms of the profound economic, social, cultural, and military effects that followed in the United States and many parts of the world.
Ubaldo Gandica
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