“‘9/11’ is shorthand for four coordinated terrorist attacks carried out by al-Qaeda, an Islamist extremist group, that occurred on the morning of September 11, 2001. The attacks killed 2,977 people.” – “FAQ about 9/11,” 911memorial.org, accessed on June 20, 2019 […]
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9/11/2001
On September 11, 2001, “The first of the planes was reported hijacked to the FAA [Federal Aviation Administration] at 8:24 a.m.; the last of them would not crash until 10:03, which meant that the supersonic military jet fighters stationed up and down the East Coast to defend American borders had at least one hour and […]
9/11/2001
According to the 9/11 Commission, on September 11, 2001: “Vice-President [Dick] Cheney issued the shoot-down order from the bunker underneath the White House shortly after 10:00 a.m. He told us that he discussed the order beforehand in a phone conversation with President Bush–who was aboard Air Force One–shortly after he entered the bunker at around […]
9/11/2001
On January 27, 2004, the 9/11 Commission “heard a tape recording of the last known words of Betty Ong, a flight attendant for American Airlines Flight 11, the plane that crashed in to the North Tower of the World Trade Center [on September 11, 2001]. Ong had used an on-board phone to call airline supervisors […]
9/11/2001
“Nine of the 19 hijackers would have their bags subjected to close scrutiny that morning [September 11, 2001]–six of them because a computerized screening system singled them out for enhanced security checks, and three others because of irregularities in the identification documents that two of them held. Their knives, if discovered, had blades less than […]
9/11/2001
Speaking to the nation on the evening of September 11, 2001, President Bush said: ” ‘America was targeted for attack…because we’re the brightest beacon for freedom and opportunity in the world.’ ” – Karl Rove, Courage and Consequence, Page 264 […]
9/11/2001
On the morning of September 11, 2001, “On Air Force One, Ari Fleischer, the White House press secretary, who was taking notes, recorded at 10:20 a.m. that the president [Bush] had told him–Fleischer–that he had authorized a shoot-down [of a plane approaching Washington D.C.].” – Elisabeth Bumiller, Condoleezza Rice: An American Life, Page xiv […]
9/11/2001
On the evening of September 11, 2001, U.K. Prime Minister Tony Blair said: ” ‘This mass terrorism is the new evil in our world. The people who perpetrate it have no regard whatsoever for the sanctity or value of human life, and we the democracies of the world must come together to defeat it and […]
9/11/2001
Then-Vice President Dick Cheney recalled his actions from the Presidential Emergency Operations Center beneath the White House, during the terrorist attacks on the morning of September 11, 2001: “At about 10:15, a uniformed military aide came into the room to tell me that a plane, believed hijacked, was eighty miles out and headed for D.C. […]
9/11/2001
On the morning of September 11, 2001, “Upon hearing the second message [from the cockpit of Flight 11], the [air traffic] controller concluded that Flight 11 had been hijacked. He consulted his supervisors; at 8:37 a.m., [the Federal Aviation Administration’s] Boston Center bypassed the prescribed protocol and contacted NORAD’s Northeast Air Defense Sector (NEADS). Two […]