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On September 11, 2001, suicide bombers from the terrorist organization Al-Qaeda captured four passenger aircraft, - towers of the World shopping center, and the other two - to the Pentagon and, presumably, to the White House or Capitol. All aircraft except the last one reached their targets. The fourth hijacked plane crashed into a field near Shanksville, Pennsylvania.
Victims of the September 11 attacks, including 343 firefighters and 60 police officers. Not only US citizens, but 92 other countries died. 2,753 people were killed in New York, 184 people were killed in the Pentagon, and 40 people crashed in Pennsylvania.
19 terrorists are also listed as killed in the attacks, 15 of them were citizens Saudi Arabia, two - United United Arab Emirates, one from Egypt and one from Lebanon.
At 8:46 a.m. (hereinafter local time), an American Airlines Boeing 767 flying from Boston to Los Angeles crashed into the North Tower of the World Trade Center (WTC) on Manhattan Island in New York between the 93rd and 99th floors. There were 81 passengers (including five terrorists) and 11 crew members on board the plane.
At 9:03 a.m., a United Airlines Boeing 767 flying from Boston to Los Angeles crashed into the South Tower of the World Trade Center between the 77th and 85th floors. There were 56 passengers and nine crew members on board the plane.
At 9:37 a.m., an American Airlines Boeing 757 flying from Washington to Los Angeles crashed into the Pentagon building. There were 58 passengers and six crew members on board the plane.
At 10:03 a.m., a United Airlines Boeing 757 flying from Newark, New Jersey to San Francisco crashed into a field in southwestern Pennsylvania, near the city of Shanksville, 200 kilometers from Washington. There were 37 passengers and seven crew members on board the plane.
As a result of a severe fire, the South Tower of the World Trade Center collapsed at 9.59, and the North Tower of the World Trade Center collapsed at 10.28.
At 6:16 p.m., the 47-story building of the World Trade Center complex, located in close proximity to the World Trade Center towers, collapsed. A fire started in it.
The exact amount of damage caused by the September 11 terrorist attacks is unknown. In September 2006, US President George W. Bush reported that the damage from the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks was the lowest estimate for the United States.
On November 27, 2002, the United States established an independent commission to investigate the September 11 terrorist attacks (9/11 Commission). In 2004, she released the final report on the investigation into the circumstances of the tragedy. One of the main conclusions of the 600-page document was the recognition that the perpetrators of the terrorist attacks took advantage of the work of the US government and intelligence agencies.
The only person convicted in the case of the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001 in the United States is a French citizen of Moroccan origin, Zacarias Moussaoui. He was arrested in August 2001 after graduating from flight school in Oklahoma and training on a Boeing 747 simulator in Minnesota. In April 2005, Moussaoui was found guilty of intending to carry out a terrorist attack, which was supposed to be the fifth in a series of tragic events of September 11, 2001. On the personal instructions of Osama bin Laden, he was supposed to hijack a plane and go to ram the White House in Washington - this is what a terrorist talks about.
In May 2006, by a decision of the federal court in Alexandria (Virginia), where the trial took place, Zacarias Moussaoui was sentenced.
Six other suspects in the attacks were arrested in 2002 and 2003 and spent several years in CIA prisons and, in 2006, at the US base at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.
In February 2008, the US Department of Defense was accused of murder and war crimes as part of the investigation into the September 11 attacks.
Charges were brought against Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, who, according to the 9/11 Commission report, is a central figure in the preparation of terrorist attacks in the United States; Yemeni-born Ramzi Binalshib (another spelling Ramzi bin al-Shiba), who provided organizational support to terrorists and transferred money to them; Mohammed al-Qahtani, who, according to investigators, on September 11, 2001 was supposed to become another, the 20th hijacker of four American planes; as well as Ali Abdul Aziz Ali, Mustafa Ahmed Hawsawi (other spelling Mustafa Ahmad Khausawi) and Walid bin Attash.
Hearings in the case of those accused of involvement in organizing a terrorist attack.
In March 2016, New York District Judge George Daniels entered a default judgment requiring Iran to pay $7.5 billion to relatives and other representatives of those killed at the World Trade Center and the Pentagon. The judge determined that Iranian authorities must pay another three billion to insurers who covered property damage and other material losses. Earlier, Judge Daniels ruled that Tehran could not prove its non-involvement in providing assistance to the organizers of the terrorist attack, and therefore the Iranian authorities are liable for the damage caused during it.
In September 2016, the US Congress passed a law allowing the heirs of victims of the September 11 terrorist attacks to sue Saudi Arabia, whose citizens were the majority of the terrorists who carried out the attacks. Already in early October 2016, an American woman who lost her husband during the terrorist attack on September 11, 2001, filed her first lawsuit against Saudi Arabia. In March 2017, relatives of the victims in the United States. In April, it was reported that more than two dozen US insurers had filed a lawsuit against two Saudi Arabian banks and companies linked to Osama bin Laden's family, as well as several charities, for a total of at least $4.2 billion in connection with the attacks.
September 11, 2016 marks 15 years since the terrorist attacks, unprecedented in world history, were committed in the United States. The tragedy claimed the lives of almost three thousand people.
19 terrorists - citizens of Egypt, Saudi Arabia, the UAE and Lebanon - hijacked 4 passenger airliners. Two planes were sent into the skyscrapers of the World Trade Center in New York, the third airliner crashed into the Pentagon building. The fourth plane crashed into a field in Pennsylvania - its passengers and crew tried to take control of the airliner from terrorists.
The victims of the terrorist attacks were 2,977 people from 92 countries: 246 passengers and crew members of aircraft, 2,606 people in New York, in the World Trade Center buildings and on the ground (of which 341 firefighters and 2 paramedics of the New York Fire Department, 60 police officers and 8 employees "ambulance"), 125 people - in the Pentagon building.
The attacks caused the 110-story twin towers to collapse. Work to clear the World Trade Center site lasted more than eight months. Burning and smoldering in the rubble at the site of the collapsed Twin Towers continued for 99 days before the fire was completely extinguished.
Chronicle of the 9/11 tragedy
The moment the first plane collides with a shopping center skyscraper. Video: Youtube
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Passersby on the streets of New York point to the World Trade Center complex. September 11, 2001 
People look out of the windows of the North Tower. September 11, 2001 
The President of the United States is introduced to schoolchildren, after which George W. Bush begins to read to them the book “The Pet Goat.” At this moment, White House Chief of Staff Andrew Card approaches him and reports: “The second plane crashed into the second tower. America is under attack." September 11, 2001 
People watch the collapse of one of the World Trade Center towers. September 11, 2001 
Rescuers carry a mortally wounded man from the destroyed World Trade Center building. September 11, 2001 
Burning World Trade Center towers. September 11, 2001 
A helicopter circles the burning Pentagon after one of the hijacked planes crashes into the building. September 11, 2001 
A group of firefighters among the rubble of the World Trade Center complex. September 11, 2001 
A helicopter circles near one of the World Trade Center towers. September 11, 2001 
In the background is the smoldering World Trade Center building. September 11, 2001 
Medical staff at St. Vincent's Hospital in New York await victims. September 11, 2001 
A firefighter walks among the rubble at the foot of the destroyed World Trade Center complex. September 11, 2001 
The damaged wing of the Pentagon. September 11, 2001 
A fireman calls for help at the ruins of the World Trade Center. September 11, 2001 
Firefighters clear the rubble of the World Trade Center. September 11, 2001 
Car wrecks near the World Trade Center complex. September 11, 2001 
US President George W. Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney at the Presidential Emergency Operations Center in Washington, September 11, 2001 
US President George W. Bush speaks at the wreckage of the World Trade Center. September 14, 2001
Survivor Stories
Fred Eichler
On September 11, 2001, 54-year-old insurance agent Fred Eichler walked into his office on the 83rd floor of the World Trade Center North Tower at 8:15 a.m. At 8:40 Fred went to the restroom, but on the way he met four colleagues and they stopped to chat. Through the window they saw a plane flying towards their building. At 8.46 the airliner crashed into a skyscraper, destroying everything in its path. The shock wave threw Fred and his colleagues several tens of meters away. After regaining consciousness, the man called 911 and then called home to talk to his wife, daughters and parents. He was sure that he would never see them again.
Fred walked into the meeting room and was joined by three strangers. The floor was gradually filled with smoke, and streams of water from broken pipes rushed through the corridors and staircases. Those gathered stuffed wet rugs and towels into the crack under the door, trying to stop the smoke. After consulting, they decided not to open the windows, fearing that the air would fan the flames.
At 9.02 there was a second blow: the plane crashed into the neighboring South Tower. Fred and the others decided to try the fire escape. But when they got to the door, the lights in the building went out. They returned to the meeting room and hid under the tables.
At 9:30 Fred saw the light of a flashlight. A firefighter reached their floor. He was able to save the people he found, but he himself died. The rescuer led the survivors to the stairs and advised them to go to another staircase on the 78th floor and go down it. On the 20th floor they heard another impact sound. The whole building shook: it was the South Tower that collapsed. The northern one began to tremble - elevators fell into shafts, stairs swayed. When Fred got outside, he asked someone for a phone and dialed his wife's number. She screamed into the phone: “Run, run, run!” The firefighters and police shouted the same thing. A few minutes later the North Tower collapsed.
Michael Wright
Michael Wright, 30, was on the 81st floor of the North Tower of the World Trade Center when the plane crashed into the building.
At that moment, Michael was in the men's room, where they were just installing a sign asking for the cleanliness of the room. The building shook. When Wright looked out of the toilet into the corridor, he saw fire and heard a woman screaming - his colleague Alicia could not get out of the burning women's toilet. The men broke down the door and were able to pull the woman out.
There was a huge crack in the hallway floor, the hallway near the elevator was completely destroyed, and there was smoke everywhere. Michael began to lead his colleagues to the stairs, people descended as if during a fire drill - in two rows.
“What helped me stay calm on the stairs was the thought of the unreality of what was happening; it seemed like the building couldn’t collapse. Once we had climbed a few floors, we relaxed a little. We knew something bad had happened, but once the fire was thirty floors above, it wasn’t as much of a concern,” Wright recalls. According to him, people passed some floors quickly, others within 10 minutes.
On the 40th floor, Michael and his colleagues met firefighters who advised them to continue going down, assuring them that it was safe there. Having descended below the level of the 20th floor, Wright found himself on the site of the South Tower and realized the seriousness of what was happening: there were corpses everywhere, dozens of bodies.
When the building began to collapse, Wright and his colleagues were at the escalator at one of the exits from the building. A cloud of debris and dust rose, and the air seemed to turn black. Michael tore off his shirt and covered her nose and mouth. Seeing no direction, he crawled, trying to find a way out.
Michael was lucky - he came across a fireman who was able to take him out through the surviving bookstore building.
Reaching the phone, Michael called his wife Jenny.
“I said, ‘Jenny, it’s me.’ There was a groan on the other end of the phone. I said: “I’m alive.” I'm alive. I love you. I love you". We cried and cried. Then the connection was lost,” says Michael Wright.
Frank Razzano
On the morning of September 11, the famous American lawyer Frank Razzano was sleeping in his room on the 19th floor of the Marriott Hotel, located at the foot of the twin towers of the World Trade Center. He woke up from the sound of the first blow, saw papers flying outside the window and returned to bed. A few minutes later a second blow was heard. The plane crashed into the South Tower, which Frank's windows overlooked. Razzano turned on the TV and heard the news. He still thought that there was nothing to worry about, because all the problems were 60 floors above. The firefighters will arrive and everything will be okay.
Frank took a shower, got dressed, packed his things and suddenly felt as if the hotel was being shelled by heavy artillery: the South Tower began to fall apart. Through the window, the lawyer saw mountains of concrete and steel falling from the sky, as if in slow motion. He ran to the opposite side of the room and pressed himself against the wall.
Suddenly the roar stopped. Razzano looked out into the corridor and shouted: “Is anyone alive?” Someone replied: “Come here.” The firefighter directed Razzano to the stairs. While falling, the tower broke the hotel in the middle, but the far staircase remained intact. Razzano followed it to the third floor, and there, together with a group of people, climbed through an opening in the wall to the second floor. A few minutes later, the North Tower collapsed and buried the remains of the hotel. Several lower floors remained intact.
That's where Razzano was. There was nothing to breathe: the air seemed to consist of nothing but dirt and dust. People still managed to find an opening in the destroyed wall of the building, and with the help of a carpet they went down to the mountain of rubble. There, the police helped Razzano get to the doctors.
Pascal Bazzeli
43-year-old design engineer Pascal Bazzeli was in the elevator of the North Tower when the first blow was heard. The elevator stopped on the 44th floor, and Pascal saw people panicking, but decided to go up to his office on the 64th floor. He called his pregnant wife and asked her to turn on the TV and find out what was going on. When she told him what was happening, Buzzelli and his colleagues surrounded the office television and saw the plane fly into a nearby tower. They rushed to the stairs and managed to go down to the 22nd floor when the building began to fall.
Bazzeli turned out to be an incredibly lucky man - curled up in a ball, he rolled down the rubble 15 floors down, like a surfer on a huge wave and, most amazingly, survived with a broken leg. All his colleagues died.
On the way down, Bazzeli lost consciousness and came to his senses three hours later in the ruins of the seventh floor.
Ron DiFrancesco
On the morning of September 11, 37-year-old broker Ron DiFrancesco was working in his office on the 84th floor of the South Tower. At this time, a plane crashed into the North Tower. Seeing the smoke, DiFrancesco decided to get out of the building and left the office. A few minutes after he left, the plane also crashed into the South Tower, between the 77th and 85th floors.
Going down, DiFrancesco met a group of people who began to persuade him to go to the roof - they said that the fire below was too strong, and there should be fresh air above.
Ron tried to go up several floors, but all the doors were closed or locked. The panic intensified, it became more and more difficult to breathe, and DiFrancesco finally decided to go down. He reached the pad in the impact zone and lay on the floor among other gasping people. Panic began to seize him. But some voice in his head, Ron claims, ordered him to run downstairs. Covering his face with his hands, he ran to the first floor, where the guard sent him to another exit and, already running out of the door, DiFrancesco heard a deafening roar above - the building began to collapse.
Seeing the explosion, the broker lost consciousness and woke up in the hospital with burns and a broken spine.
Officials said he was the last person to leave the building before the collapse and one of four surviving Americans who worked above the 81st floor but were able to escape.
John McLaughlin, last of those rescued
When the plane hit the South Tower, Sergeant John McLaughlin was several miles from the mall, patrolling the bus terminal in Manhattan. Like many, he headed to the towers that day to help the victims.
Arriving at the scene of the tragedy and not yet knowing the extent of the damage to the World Trade Center, McLaughlin assembled a team of four people - three police officers Antonio Rodriguez, Chris Amoroso, Dominic Petzullo, as well as rookie Will Gimeno.
They were on the ground floor connecting the buildings of the World Trade Center complex when the South Tower collapsed. The police were covered in debris.
“At first I thought I died. I didn’t feel anything: I didn’t see, I didn’t smell, I didn’t hear. There was a ringing silence all around,” recalls John McLaughlin.
Officers Amoroso and Rodriguez were killed immediately. McLaughlin and the two remaining members of his team were trapped. Dominic Petzullo managed to free himself from the rubble and tried to save his colleagues when the North Tower collapsed and was mortally wounded by debris.
McLaughlin and Will Gimeno, lying under the rubble, heard the voices of rescuers and firefighters.
“I heard screams and shouted too, but it was useless. I said then: “I don’t think they will look for us. There's too much going on up there. They’re already busy,” McLaughlin recalls.
He reached for the radio and left a last message for his family, as well as for Will's wife, who was seven months pregnant.
“I think the moment when Will asked to tell his wife to name their unborn daughter Olivia was the worst. I think that’s when we kind of accepted that we were going to die here,” says Sgt.
The men spent more than 10 hours under the rubble before help arrived. Rescuers were able to pull Jimeno out around 11 p.m. Firefighters reached McLaughlin only on the morning of September 12 - he had to wait another 8 hours for rescue.
The sergeant was sent to the hospital, where doctors at first did not believe that he would survive - the injuries were very serious. Doctors put John in a coma for 6 weeks, and he underwent about 30 operations, including skin grafts on his legs. After several years of therapy, he was able to return to a normal life.
John McLaughlin was the last person to be pulled from the rubble of the World Trade Center that collapsed as a result of the terrorist attack on September 11, 2001.
Causes and culprits of the tragedy
The al-Qaeda group claimed responsibility for the attack. The large-scale terrorist attack was a consequence of the declared jihad against Jews and Americans; the American policy of supporting Israel, aggression against Iraq, and the presence of American troops in Saudi Arabia were also cited as reasons. Al-Qaeda accused America of “plundering” the region, oppressing people by supporting totalitarian regimes, and controlling the policies of legitimate rulers Arab countries.
The identities of all the suicide bombers were established - they were citizens of Egypt, Saudi Arabia, the UAE and Lebanon. It turned out that the men were in the United States legally, and some were trained in American flight schools. Al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden admitted in a video message that he directly supervised the actions of 19 terrorists.
On May 2, 2011, in north-west Pakistan, US intelligence agencies identified “terrorist number one”. The operation to kill bin Laden was watched live by US President Barack Obama and his team.
US President Barack Obama and his team are monitoring the progress of the operation to kill Osama bin Laden. Photo: White House press service In May 2012, the trial of the mastermind and main organizer of the terrorist attacks, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, who was detained in 2003 in Pakistan, began at the Guantanamo Bay base. The verdict is still pending.
The terrorist attack that changed the world
In October 2001, the United States and Great Britain launched a military operation in Afghanistan with the aim of destroying the bases of al-Qaeda and its leader Osama bin Laden. The operation lasted 13 years - most of the American military and NATO forces left this country only at the end of 2014, but about 8 thousand US Army troops still remain in Afghanistan - to “maintain peace and order.”
9/11 served as a pretext for yet another military conflict. A year after the terrorist attack on the United States, the American government accused Iraq and Saddam Hussein's regime of resuming the development of weapons of mass destruction and collaborating with al-Qaeda. On February 5, 2003, US Secretary of State Colin Powell spoke at a special meeting of the UN Security Council with his famous report. In his speech, Powell said Iraq was working on biological and chemical weapons programs and had two of the three necessary components to produce nuclear weapons.
In 2004, Powell admitted that the data he released was largely inaccurate and sometimes falsified. But it was too late - on March 20, 2003, the United States and its allies invaded Iraq in violation of the UN Charter, and the war was already in full swing. Saddam Hussein was executed in 2006, but coalition forces left Iraq only in 2011.
These wars became one of the reasons for the radicalization of Islamists in the Middle East. After the destruction of bin Laden, al-Qaeda is limited to the tactics of declarative statements, which, as a rule, are not associated with specific terrorist attacks. But one of the group's branches, Al-Qaeda in Iraq, eventually turned into the terrorist organization Islamic State. It was the Islamic State group that captured parts of Libya, Iraq and Syria and declared a caliphate on the occupied lands. And it is the Islamic State that is responsible for the high-profile terrorist attacks of recent years.
The material was prepared based on open sources
The once unforgettable and at one time very popular Karl Marx, predicting the imminent death of capitalism, argued that this is none other than the proletariat. Much time has passed since then and life has flowed according to a slightly different scenario. The proletariat calmed down, acquired petty-bourgeois habits, and in some places even became capitalism’s best friend, ready to break anyone for its sake. Straight from Confucius. "If you can't defeat your enemy, become his best friend".
But a holy place is never empty. And then, at the turn of the century, she appeared in the abyss. Not capitalism, not the oligarchy, but the whole Western world en masse, with all its European values and traditions. Entirely and completely. Into the abyss. How unworthy to exist.
Of course, it is still too early to panic, especially since panic does not lead to anything good, but - . Anyone who once at least somehow studied history remembers how it all began in Russia. First there were terrorist attacks against generals, ministers and members of the royal family, and in 1917 the communists revealed their doctrine of socio-economic development to the general public.
Of course, there is not much in common between communists, but their goals and methods are somewhat similar.
The September 11 attacks - the beginning of World War III?
Terrorist attacks there are different ones. But - series terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001- these are terrorist attacks of a special kind, a kind of reduced model of the war of the worlds, Western and otherwise, carefully raised and released into free floating, like a genie released from a bottle.
In the morning September 11 4 groups of terrorists, totaling 19 people, hijacked 4 Boeing 767-200 passenger aircraft taking off from Boston, Washington and Newark, which were then used to attack ground targets. Two planes crashed into the North and South towers of the World Trade Center in New York, and a third into the Pentagon building in Washington. As for the fourth hijacked plane, the target of the terrorists who hijacked it was the Capitol or the White House.
Flight 11 American airlines took off from Boston, crashed into the north side of the north tower of the World Trade Center, in the time interval from 8:46:26 to 8:46:40 local time, approximately at the 94-98 floor level.
Flight 175 American airlines
took off from Boston, crashed into the south side of the south tower of the World Trade Center, 9:02:59
, approximately at the 78-85 floor level.
Flight 77 American airlines took off from Washington, crashed into the Pentagon building in 9:37:46 .
Flight 93 American airlines flew from Newark, to 10:03:11 fell in a field in Pennsylvania about 240 km north of Washington.
Tuesday was not chosen by chance for the terrorist attack. According to statistics, it is on Tuesday that the fewest passengers fly on planes, and the aforementioned planes were not even half full on that ill-fated day.
The planes were hijacked by residents of Arab countries, most from Saudi Arabia. There were five terrorists on flights 11, 175, 77, and four on flight 93, apparently because at the very last moment the fifth member of their group was not allowed into the United States for fear that he would become an illegal migrant (the guy intended to enter the country with 2800 dollars and without a return ticket in hand).
One terrorist in each group had flight training received at one of the flight schools, where the Arab boys attracted attention because they only learned how to fly an aircraft in the air, ignoring classes that taught them how to take off and land. At the same time, other terrorists were rehearsing the seizure of an aircraft and its subsequent retention.
The hijacking of planes followed the same pattern. The terrorists waited until the plane gained altitude and the flight attendants began serving food, after which they broke into the cockpit, where they exchanged the pilot for one of their own. At the same time, they used edged weapons (office knives for cutting paper); during the capture, several flight attendants, at least one passenger and at least one pilot (John Ogonowski, captain of the aircraft, flight 11) were immediately killed.
It is worth noting that, with the exception of John Ogonowski, the pilots were left alive, apparently in order to, if necessary, be involved in controlling the airliner. Threatening with an explosive device and knives, the hijackers forced passengers into the rear of the plane. It is not difficult to guess (and the flight recorders confirm this) that panic arose among the passengers, in a sense, a friend and ally of the terrorists.
And the terrorists changed course and some time later rammed pre-distributed buildings.
September 11, Flight 93 - how it all happened
I would like to write about flight 93 in more detail. For me, it is interesting, first of all, in the context of the relationship between people and non-humans, playing with other people's lives in order to please the “higher interests” that only they understand. This plane did not reach its target, which was either the White House or Congress, because the terrorists were prevented by passengers and flight attendants.
On board the aircraft were two pilots, five flight attendants and 37 passengers, four of whom were hijackers. Ziyad Jarrah from Lebanon, the leader of the group, who had previously undergone flight training, and his three accomplices from Saudi Arabia. Let's consider the chronology of events.
Boarding for flight 93 was scheduled for 08:00 and departure for 08:01. However, due to the heavy load at the airport, the flight was delayed until 08:42 . Who knows, perhaps in this way life gave people (people, not creatures) a chance for salvation, but they were not destined to take advantage of it.
By this time, Flight 011 had already been hijacked, and 4 minutes later it crashed into the North Tower of the World Trade Center. Flight 175 was in the process of being hijacked; Flight 75 would be hijacked in 9 minutes.
On these three flights, no more than half an hour passed from the moment of takeoff to the start of the capture. For some reason, the terrorists waited 46 minutes on flight 93.
IN 09:02
Flight 175 rammed the South Tower of the World Trade Center, and it became clear that all these events (2 air rams and the hijacking of Flight 75) were nothing more than a terrorist attack. Dispatchers began sending warnings to all aircraft in the air. At 09:24 the pilots received a message: “ Beware of the cockpit invasion - two planes crashed into the World Trade Center"At 09:26 the PIC sent the response: " Ed, confirm the last message. Jason»
IN 09:27:25 the crew responded to a routine dispatch call and the capture immediately began.
IN 09:28:17 the crew sent a distress signal " Mayday! Mayday! Mayday!" The sounds of a struggle were heard in the cockpit. After 35 seconds, the distress signal was retransmitted. Someone in the cabin shouted: “ Mayday! Get out of here! Get out of here!»
IN 09:31:57 Jarrah, the leader of the terrorist group and “part-time” suicide pilot, announced: “ Ladies and gentlemen, this is the commander speaking. Stay in your seats and do not get up. We have a bomb on board, so sit tight»
Probably realizing that the aircraft was coming under the control of terrorists, the captain changed the communication settings so that Jarrah's announcement was heard by the dispatchers.
The dispatcher asked again: “Who is calling Cleveland.” There was no answer. For some time there was a struggle in the cockpit between the terrorists and one of the flight attendants. Amid the sounds of a struggle, the terrorists could be heard on the flight recorder ordering someone to “Sit” “Don’t move” “Shut up” “Lie down.” Judging by the voice, some woman tried to resist, but she was either killed or neutralized in some other way. Someone said in Arabic: “Everything is fine. I finished".
IN 09:39:11 Jarrah made another announcement, which was also heard by the dispatchers: ““ The ship's commander speaks. Stay where you are. There's a bomb on board and we're heading back to the airport to make our demands. Please don't make noise».
Passengers and flight attendants began calling families, friends, and the police to inform them about what had happened. Starting from 09:30, 35 calls were made via Aerophone and two calls from mobile phones. Ten passengers and two flight attendants managed to get through. They were informed about the terrorist attacks, and the people in trouble realized that they were also in the clutches of suicide bombers.
This is how man is made; he has an ineradicable belief in the best, in the sense of the lesser of two evils. A person believes in what he really wants to believe, and sometimes his brain clings to this belief for a long time. "Everything will be fine". “Now they will put forward their demands and negotiate with them.” “Help will definitely come.” “The Lord will not leave us in trouble.”
To escape, it was necessary to act, but even in this case the chances of success were not very great. However, the worst thing in such a situation is to play by the terrorists' rules. What can you do, in life sometimes you have to choose not between “good” and “bad,” but between “bad” and “even worse.”
IN 09:45:25 someone in Arabic ordered the pilot to return, and at 09:48:38 someone in English ordered (obviously the pilot) to take course.
IN 09:53:20 someone in Arabic someone suggested scaring everyone using .
Approximately 09:57 the passengers decided to storm the cabin. The terrorists suspected something was wrong.
IN 09:58:33 someone said in Arabic, “Go, guys,” and then began to cry out to Allah. (“Alla Akbar”). The sounds of struggle were heard outside the door.
IN 09:58:55 someone shouted in English: “Get into the cabin!”
Jarrah tilted the plane right and left, 09:58:57
he shouted in Arabic: “They are coming here. Don't let them in! Don't let them in! Hold it!” IN 09:59:52
The suicide pilot began to throw the plane up and down. IN 10:00:03
he stabilized the plane and after 5 seconds asked: “Well, is that all? Shall we achieve it? To which the other terrorist replied: “ Not yet. Once everyone gets in, then we’ll finish it off." Apparently he hoped to reach the goal. I am more than sure that when going on the job, the terrorists first used drugs.
IN 10:00:25 someone shouted outside the door: “ Everyone into the cabin! Otherwise we will all die!" Passengers used a delivery cart as a ram. Jarrah again threw the plane up and down, after which at 10:01:08 he asked: “Well, down?”, to which he received the answer: “Yes, down.”
Passengers continued to storm the cabin. IN 10:02:18 someone shouted in Arabic: “Down! Down". Behind the door one could hear in English: “We’re falling. Push! Push! Push! Push! Push!"
Now panic reigned in the cabin. IN 10:02:33 someone shouted in Arabic: “Hey! Hey! Give it to me! Give it to me! Give it to me! Give it to me!
WITH 10:03:02 – 10:03:09 But in the cabin one could hear the repeated “Allahu Akbar!”
This phrase was the last one recorded by the flight recorder.
The commission's conclusion states that " The hijackers maintained control of the plane, but decided that in a few seconds the passengers would burst into the cabin“, but some relatives of the victims believe that the passengers managed to break into the cabin and even kill one terrorist.
The exact time of fall varies from 10:03 to 10:10 , at a speed of 906 km per hour, in an inverted position at an angle of 40 degrees, the plane crashed into the ground. All 44 people on board were killed. A crater with a diameter of about twelve and a depth of about three meters formed at the crash site.
The damage caused by the September 11 terrorist attacks is irreparable
The South Tower of the World Trade Center collapsed at 9:56, the North Tower at 10:28. The people who remained on the upper floors died. Only 18 people managed to get out of the impact zone in the South Tower and escape. 1,366 people died on the upper floors of the North Tower, and more than 600 in the South Tower.
At least 200 from the upper floors of the towers jumped down, preferring to fall to their deaths rather than die from the smoke. Some tried to get onto the roofs of the towers, hoping that they would be evacuated by helicopters, but the doors to the roofs were locked, and the fire and smoke made the use of helicopters impossible.
In total, 2,977 people became victims of the tragic events (19 terrorists are not included here): 246 passengers and crew members, 2,606 people in New York, in the World Trade Center buildings and on the ground, 125 in the Pentagon building. Citizens of the United States and 91 other countries were killed, including 96 citizens and immigrants from the countries of the former Soviet Union. 24 people remain on the list of missing persons.
The Western world was shocked. At the same time, joyful carnivals swept across a number of Arab countries.
There are different opinions regarding the events of September 11th. To the point that the terrorist attacks were orchestrated by the US government or intelligence agencies, that the Pentagon and World Trade Center buildings were not rammed by planes at all, but by . That it was originally built into the buildings, and precisely in the most vulnerable places. That the planes were, in fact, controlled from the ground, and the hysterical Arabs were used as a distraction.
It is quite possible that our entire world is controlled from some single center. The only question is who controls it. And it is very likely that this is not God at all.
Gullible, armed and evil children - US citizens - still do not even suspect that there are several billion people on Earth, much smarter than the post-Columbian Jews - who still believe the spring predictions of the groundhog.
Framing Bin Laden
Everyone “at the top” in the United States knew about the planned destruction of the Twin Towers. For example, just 8 hours before the attack on the Trade Center Condoleezza Rice dissuaded the mayor of San Francisco Willie Brown from a flight to New York scheduled for the morning of September 11th.
And according to London "Times", US President George Bush immediately after the attack on the Twin Towers, he began to actively evacuate the relatives of the leader of the “terrorists” Bin Laden. The president of the newly attacked power ordered a private plane to take a dozen relatives of the main terrorist out of the United States. And this despite the fact that bin Laden’s relatives were never summoned for questioning by either the police or the FBI.
Al-Qaeda was financed by major international corporations - "Microsoft" , UBS , "Compaq" etc. These computer giants are responsible not for a theatrical “terrorist attack”, but for the completely outright criminal activities of pre-ISIS.
But after 14 years, no Microsoft, nor Compaq have not lost their position in the market at all. Neither the “progressive” public, nor “human rights activists,” nor law enforcement services, nor family members of those killed during the “terrorist attacks,” nor, finally, “sympathetic” buyers have any complaints against them. Somehow, the entire population of the Earth reacted absolutely shamelessly to the criminal activities of these companies.
Chief Terrorist Osama bin Laden was announced in international search long before the “terrorist attack” of September 11, 2001. But, nevertheless, in July 2001, he unhinderedly underwent treatment in an American clinic. In between enemas, he met with one of the leaders of the CIA. An American urologist allegedly treated bin Laden Terry Callaway.
All these and many other data indicate that Bin Laden was not involved in the terrorist scam with the Twin Towers. Osama himself, in an interview with the Pakistani newspaper Ummat, said that he considers the organizers of the terrorist attacks in the United States Florida Jewish community.
The supporting beam of a demolished tower cut off by a directed explosion.
In his interview with American radio (audio.mp3, 2006), Rabbi Abe Finkelstein explained the following about the scam:
Presenter: " There were no Jews in these towers. Can you explain this?».
Rabbi: " Many Jews died in the towers, spiritually».
Presenter: " Oh, I see there were 3,000 Jews who were not at work that day in these towers. It just gave a lot of people the impression that the Jewish population there in Jewish York, I mean New York, knew something was going to happen and they didn't show up for work that day».
Rabbi: " Yes, we got a call from Kehilla (Jewish community) that Ariel and some boys are from Mossad. They got together and they wired these buildings [mined them], and they filled them up. It was pretty hard to fill them up, anyway, because we wanted to build some new structures, and the buildings are getting old, and it was time to fill them up. So we will make a few shekels by destroying these buildings. Ah, Silverstein was a good friend of mine. We have Larry. He got two for one, and he doubled the insurance, like magic, just three months before it happened, and he got double the benefit on it, so he made four times his money.
I should have been in on this deal. He asked me, but I said, eh, I'll have to think about it. It took me too long to think about it, and they pulled the plug, as they say, and filled these buildings. But at least I went public and I sold American Airlines, I sold United Airlines, I sold Lloyd's of London Insurance, because it was a big blow for them, Alliance Insurance, I sold them too.
So I made a few shekels».
I don’t presume to judge how sincere the rabbi is, but you can still listen to his interview on air today. Finkelstein says very interesting things. Even more interesting conclusions can be drawn.
Absolutely the same situation is happening today in Donbass. Ukraine captured Zion and terrorized her. It pumps money out of the budget and pumps up the treasury with debts. It pushes Ukrainians out of the country and forces them to engage in prostitution and other indecent things. Zion has turned Ukrainians into murderers of civilians - children, old people, women...
Today is the anniversary of the scam. It’s painful to even think about the cynicism of those who pulled it off. No amount of shekels can restore their conscience. The American people, scared shitless by their democratic and free government, do not even try to appeal to the authorities for victims - no one is burying anyone, no one is demanding compensation, there are no graves. Only enterprising and unscrupulous people are being sued for the tenth time for the same fraud.
Andrey Tyunyaev, editor-in-chief of the President newspaper,
An event that changed people's lives
It would not be an exaggeration to say that this day was the most unusual on the planet in the 21st century. Then residents of all countries of the world glued their gaze to their TV screens and became glued to the Internet. And there, on the screens, something completely unimaginable was happening, reminiscent of footage from a science fiction action movie. Huge passenger liners crashed into the skyscrapers of New York, tall buildings folded like toy houses, drowning in clouds of dust reminiscent of a volcanic eruption. And - people: endless crowds of screaming people, running through the streets, or frozen in the distance with a cell phone near their ear...
Alas, it was not a film, but almost a direct report from the scene of an event that would later rightfully be called the largest act of terrorism in the history of mankind. An event that bears a completely official name: “The terrorist attack of September 11, 2001 in New York.”
The terrorist attack of September 11, 2001 - how it happened
It is difficult to describe what happened, if only because the narrator inevitably slips into emotions, into personal assessments, and even into his own memories. Moreover, to this day, after many years, certain mysteries, unexplored aspects, and inconsistency of interpretations remain in the picture of the grandiose terrorist attack. However, the essence of what happened is as follows.
A group of Islamic terrorists captured four passenger liners, filled with people and performing scheduled flights. Further investigation revealed that there were a total of 19 attackers, all belonging to the same organization, al-Qaeda. Each plane carried at least one person who had undergone special training and was able to fly a passenger ship.
The terrorists sent two planes to the tall buildings - the South and North towers of the World Trade Center, which were the pride of Manhattan and towered in its southern part. The planes crashed into these skyscrapers one by one, with an interval of about 16 minutes. As a result of the disaster, the buildings caught fire and subsequently completely collapsed, burying a huge number of people. Naturally, all the passengers on the planes also died.
The third plane fell on the Pentagon building, and the fourth crashed in Pennsylvania, crashing into a field. As the investigation showed, its target, apparently, was the building of the US Congress, but the terrorists failed to carry out their plans: a struggle ensued on board with the crew and passengers, which ultimately led to the crash of the plane. Naturally, everyone on the third and fourth ships also died.
The Pentagon building after a collision with a plane
At the moment, it is stated that as a result of these sad events, 2977 people died, not counting the 19 attackers. Also, 23 people are still listed as missing.
This is exactly what it looks like brief description this extraordinary event, but for a more accurate picture it needs to be supplemented with some important facts.
Terrorist attack of September 11, 2001 - additional facts
All the hijacked flights followed their schedules to distant California, that is, they had a lot of fuel on board, because the hijackings occurred shortly after the departures. The plane flew into the North Tower at approximately the 95th floor level, and into the South Tower at approximately the 80th floor level. It is impossible to say more precisely, since in both cases these were Boeings, very large aircraft, and the contact area was more than one floor.
The terrible fire and destruction caused by the disaster led to the collapse of giant buildings. The South Tower was the first to fall, followed by the North Tower about half an hour later (the fire in the building raged for 102 minutes). The third building, also part of the World Trade Center complex, fell in the late afternoon. It was too close to the towers that were attacked and could not withstand the temperature and mechanical influences that fell on its walls. In addition, accumulated gas from destroyed communications exploded inside the building.
Some time passed between the hijacking of the planes and their crash, during which many passengers managed to connect with their loved ones and friends via mobile communications. Some said goodbye to life, others tried to contact the special services. Many records of these negotiations have been preserved: emotional, deep, filled with fear and grief, but also love for loved ones.
In some cases, passengers and crew tried to resist the terrorists. One of the planes, as already mentioned, as a result of such heroic actions did not reach its target. In the Boeing that crashed into the North Tower, at least one passenger and crew commander were killed even before the collision; this has been proven by investigation.
Pennsylvania plane crash site 4
In the first hours after the terrorist attack, life in the United States changed beyond recognition. No planes received permission to fly into the country and land at its airfields. Passenger flights within the state were cancelled, all foreign flights went to land in Canada and Mexico. Hundreds of fighters took to the air and patrolled the skies around all major cities.
New York was given a special role. Thousands of firefighters, paramedics and rescue workers worked in Manhattan. All city police officers were involved, and colleagues from other regions urgently arrived to help them. The destroyed twin towers left behind gigantic rubble, the burning of which lasted about 100 days, releasing many harmful chemicals into the air.
Subsequently, US intelligence services found out that of the 19 terrorists, the majority (15 people) had the citizenship of Saudi Arabia, the rest were citizens of the UAE, Egypt and Lebanon. They were not typical fanatical martyrs: they all had a good education and a well-established philosophy of life.
Consequences of the terrorist attack
The monumental terrorist attack of September 11 had consequences commensurate with its scale. They have manifested themselves in various spheres of life, and all over the world. Here are just a few of them.
Material
In addition to the completely destroyed three WTC skyscrapers, several other nearby buildings were significantly damaged, or even destroyed, including one church. Archives, works of art, and countless documents were lost. Southern part Manhattan lost its business importance for many years. The Pentagon building was very damaged.
Political
The US government and Congress created a special commission known as the 9/11 Commission. She worked for two years and came to the conclusion that the main organizer and culprit of the attack was the Islamic fundamentalist organization Al-Qaeda, which spent about half a billion dollars on the plot. The origin of these funds remains a mystery to this day.
The organization was headed by Saudi Arabian Osama bin Laden. The basis of her ideology was hatred of Israel and the United States. In subsequent years, America, along with its allies, launched an unprecedented fight against fundamentalists, primarily al-Qaeda. Its leader was killed in Afghanistan by American special forces in May 2011.
All the leading countries of the world have revised their views on terrorism, realizing its global danger. Security measures have been significantly tightened almost everywhere, especially on aircraft.
We can talk about the economic consequences of the event, its military significance, and its impact on geopolitics. But perhaps the main thing to note is the change, so to speak, in the modern philosophy of life. After such terrible events, all people, without exception, became acutely aware of what an essentially fragile world we live in. In this world, even the most powerful country turns out to be vulnerable, and danger awaits a person not only in warring states. The terrorist attack in New York showed that the boundaries between enemies and friends have become illusory, and the cruelties of wars do not necessarily manifest themselves only on the fronts of local conflicts.
Beautiful temporary memorials have been built on the site of the former Twin Towers; permanent monuments are under construction. The American nation celebrates this mournful date as a Day of Service and Remembrance. And in New York there is a tall monument by Zurab Tsereteli - “Tear of Sorrow”. Inside the split bronze slab is a huge steel drop. This is a symbol of grief not only for the people killed in the terrorist attack. And perhaps not even that much. This tear symbolizes the common pain of humanity, which after September 11 became in many ways different, not so carefree and happy.
