Table 2: Compared to the situation before September 11, , do you think the country today is safer or less safe from terrorism? William A. Galston Ezra K. Binder and Molly E.
West and Nicol Turner Lee. More on U. On the morning of 11 September , 19 terrorists from the Islamist extreme group al Qaeda hijacked four commercial aircraft and crashed two of them into the North and South Towers of the World Trade Center complex in New York City.
A third plane crashed into the Pentagon in Arlington, Virginia. After learning about the other attacks, passengers on the fourth hijacked plane, Flight 93, fought back, and the plane was crashed into an empty field in western Pennsylvania about 20 minutes by air from Washington, D. The Twin Towers ultimately collapsed, due to the damage from the impacts and subsequent fires.
Nearly 3, people were killed from 93 different countries. Most of the fatalities were from the attacks on the World Trade Center. The Pentagon lost civilians and servicemembers and 40 people were killed on Flight It was the worst attack on American soil since the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor in After the Taliban refused to turn over the mastermind of the attacks, Osama Bin Laden, Operation Enduring Freedom officially began 7 October with American and British bombing strikes against al Qaeda and Taliban forces in Afghanistan.
Initially, the Taliban was removed from power and al Qaeda was seriously crippled, but allied forces continually dealt with a stubborn Taliban insurgency, infrastructure rebuilding, and corruption among the Afghan National Army, Afghan National Police, and Afghan Border Police.
Bin Laden would go into hiding for nearly 10 years. On 2 May , U. Operation Enduring Freedom officially ended 28 December , although coalition forces remained on the ground to assist with training Afghan security forces. American troops departed Afghanistan in August In the immediate aftermath of the attacks on 11 September, the Department of Defense and all of the branches of the Armed Forces began efforts to document the attacks. The Navy Archives has received permission to release a portion of the oral histories to the public for the first time since they were recorded.
The oral histories that have been authorized for release can be found at the link above. The oral histories document the experiences of Navy personnel in New York, New Jersey, Connecticut, and Rhode Island on the day of the attacks and in the days and weeks following. The oral histories in this collection offer overlapping and complementary perspectives.
A clock, frozen at the time of impact, sat on a desk inside the Pentagon following the terrorist attack on 11 September Photo by Air Force Staff Sgt. Larry A. National Archives identifier, President George W. Photo by Eric Draper. Courtesy of the George W. Bush Presidential Library. The black walkway is the Flight Path Walkway. The Flight Path Overlook is beyond the second set of walls.
National Park Service photograph. Emergency response teams responded to the Pentagon following a terrorist attack on 11 September Photo by the FBI. Smoke and flames in the Washington, DC, skyline in the aftermath of the terrorist attack on the Pentagon, 11 September Flight 93 impact crater with debris taken early in the investigation near Shanksville, Pennsylvania.
Department of Justice photograph. Hijackers deliberately flew civilian airliners into the buildings, killing themselves, the passengers, and thousands on the ground, 11 September Navy lieutenant dropped to one knee and placed flowers on a gravesite, while family, friends and coworkers of the victims of the 11 September terrorist attack on the Pentagon, look on during a memorial service at the Arlington National Cemetery, 11 September Heat damage from the fire after the attack on the Pentagon caused thermoplastic components to melt, warp, and keys to separate from the base of the laptop.
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In January Frank Pellegrino came face-to-face with the man he had pursued for so long. The former FBI man won't disclose the details of what was said but conceded "he's a very engaging guy with a sense of humour, believe it or not". KSM has often been seen "grandstanding" at hearings in Guantanamo and Pellegrino describes the world's most infamous terrorist suspect as "Kardashian" in his craving for attention but says he shows no remorse. Would he confess or want to make the most of a trial?
After six days of talking Mohammed finally said he had had enough. A plan to hold a trial in New York faltered after public and political opposition. Keep him down in Guantanamo,'" says Pellegrino, himself a New Yorker. Next came a military tribunal at Guantanamo. But procedural delays, compounded by the Covid pandemic closing the base, have made it a long-drawn out process.
More hearings are taking place this week but an end looks a long way off. David Nevin told the BBC he expects "something in the order of 20 years for a complete resolution of the process. The criminal defence lawyer has been on the case since it began in The original plan was to begin trials almost immediately.
But they are still not even close to starting, he says, noting a newly appointed judge is "the eighth or ninth judge that we have had" depending on how you count. The judge has to familiarise himself with around 35, pages of transcripts of previous hearings and thousands of motions in what Nevin describes as the "largest criminal trial in the history of the United States".
That is primarily because the five defendants were all held in secret detention by the CIA and subjected to "enhanced interrogation techniques. That has led to arguments over evidence being contaminated by what happened at the so-called black sites. The United States "organised and implemented a clearly defined programme to torture these men," says Nevin.
Those methods provide plenty of scope for potential appeals against any convictions dragging on for years. Nevin won't disclose details of what it's like to represent one of the world's most notorious defendants. He says initially his client was "deeply sceptical" of being represented by an American lawyer so there was a long process of getting to know each other. When Mohammed was held in a top-secret part of the naval base the lawyers were put in a van with the windows blacked out and driven around for 45 minutes to disorient them, he says.
But now his client is held in the less secret Camp 5. At meetings some family members will challenge lawyers like Nevin about representing defendants, but others will ask questions about how the process works.
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