September 11, 2001 Terrorist Attack/Timeline

September 11, 2001 attacks timeline

Background History

• 1972: One World Trade Center completed.
• 1973: Two World Trade Center completed.
• 1989: Osama bin Laden founds Al-Qaida.
• 1993: World Trade Center bombing
• 1995: Operation Bojinka is discovered by Manila police on a laptop computer in an apartment after an apartment fire
• 1996: The Taliban, a radical Islamic movement, takes control of Afghanistan.
• 1998: The 1998 U.S. embassy bombings in Kenya and Tanzania occur.
• 1999: Indian Airlines Flight 814 hijacked. One passenger dies while the others are released.
• 2000: The USS Cole is bombed in Yemen

Planning and execution

• 1992 - Mohammed Atta arrives in Germany
• 1994 - Planning on Operation Bojinka begins in the Philippines
• 1995 - Operation Bojinka foiled, Said Bahaji and Ramzi Binalshibh arrive in Germany
• 1996 - Marwan Al-Shehhi and Ziad Jarrah arrive in Germany
• 1997 - Zakariyah Essabar arrives in Germany
• 1998 - Recruitment of terrorists in Germany starts
• 1999 - Hamburg cell is fully formed
• 2000 - 2000 Al-Qaida Summit in Malaysia, "pilots" head to the United States and train in flying schools
• 2001 - Rest of the hijackers go to the United States, Zacarias Moussaoui comes to the United States and is arrested, other cell members flee Germany

September 11, 2001

• 8:46 AM: American Airlines flight 11 crashes into the World Trade Center north tower
• 9:02 AM: United Airlines flight 175 crashes into the World Trade Center south tower.
• 9:37 AM: American Airlines flight 77 crashes into The Pentagon
• 10:03 AM: United Airlines flight 93 crashes in Pennsylvania

Rest of September

• September 13: The 'Star-Spangled Banner' is played during the Changing of the Guard at Buckingham Palace. Russia observes a minute's silence. See Memorials and services.
• September 11 to September 18: more than 540 attacks on Arab-Americans living in the US.
• September 20: George W. Bush announces that the USA is at war. See US governmental response.
• September 14 to September 21: Worldwide stock markets plummet. See World economic effects.

October and Aftermath

• October 1: Rudy Giuliani speaks to the United Nations General Assembly
• October 7: U.S. Attack on Afghanistan commences
• November 2001: Uniformed Firefighters Association holds a demonstration against the reduction in firefighters allocated to The Pile.
• March 2002: The Tribute in Light project begins.
• September 2002: First anniversary memorials and services are held throughout the world, particularly the USA.

External links

• "White House whitewashers" (written 27th Sept 2001)
• "Attacks prompt widespread closings" (written 11th Sept 2001)
• Thompson, Paul, "September_11:_Minute_by_Minute".
• Barter, Sheila, "How the World Trade Center fell". [BBC]

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