9/11 Terrorist attacks By: Terrence Burse

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September 11 th was a series of coordinated suicide attacks by 19 Al- Qaeda and they have hijacked four commercial passenger jet airlines. Their were two 767 jet planes that crash into the building but one of them hit first tower then the other hit the second one. It was the most dramatic attack on American soil since Pearl Harbor

World Trade Center Both planes that flew at the world trade center was leaving from Boston but one of them was leaving earlier than the other. The first plane hit the tower 8:46AM About 10,000 gallons jet fuel fed in enormous fireball. Jet fuel burns at 800 degree to 1,500 F and its not hot enough to melt structure steel.

The terrorists hijacked four California-bound planes from three airports on the Eastern Seaboard. No one claimed responsibility for the attacks, but federal officials said they suspect the involvement of Islamic links to fugitive terrorist Osama bin Laden. Bush was in a classroom in Florida yesterday morning when the attacks began and spent the day on the move for security reasons

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