Twin Towers Part 1  

It was on a Tuesday, September 11, 2001 in New York City .The day when 3,000 innocent lives were killed. Many questions not answered and many lives were lost. The day that has left us a sorrowful mark in our hearts. Nineteen men had a massive plan of attack that anyone would have not expected. They had been planned for years. The attackers hijacked the four large passenger aircraft with the intention of crashing them into the major landmarks in the United States. Inflicting as much death and destruction as possible, three planes struck their targets. The fourth crashed into a field in Pennsylvania in a single day this suspenseful acts of massive murder killed nearly 3,000 human beings from 57 countries.

        The men that had hijacked the United Airlines Flight 175, with 56 passengers (including the 5 hijackers) and 9 crew members, struck the South Tower of the World Trade Center between floors 77 and 85.Some of the estimated 10,000 gallons of jet fuel aboard erupts in a fiery blast from the side of the South Tower of the World Trade Center after the plane crashed.   Bin Laden, who orchestrated the attacks, initially denied but later admitted involvement. As a video was  

Publicly acknowledged al-Qaeda's involvement in the attacks on the U.S. and admitted his direct link to the attacks. He said that the attacks were carried out because, "we are free ... and want to regain freedom for our nation. As you undermine our security we undermine yours." Bin Laden said he had personally directed his followers to attack the World Trade Center. In my opinion the fact that they found out that he was responsible for the attack wasn't going to solve anything either for him paying or him dying wasn't going to compare the 3000 lives that were killed because of his fault.

      The idea for the attacks came from Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, who first presented it to Osama bin Laden in 1996. At that time, bin Laden and al-Qaeda were in a period of transition, having just relocated back to Afghanistan from Sudan. The 1998 African Embassy bombings and bin Laden's 1998 fatwā marked a turning point, as bin Laden became intent on attacking the United States.In late 1998 or early 1999, bin Laden gave approval for Mohammed to go forward with organizing the plot. A series of meetings occurred in early 1999; involving Mohammed, bin Laden, and his deputy Mohammed   Atef provided operational support for the plot, including target selections and helping arrange travel for the hijackers. Bin Laden overruled Mohammed, rejecting some potential targets such as the U.S. Bank Tower in Los Angeles because, "there was not enough time to prepare for such an operation .Bin Laden initially selected Nawaf al-Hazmi and Khalid al-Mihdhar, both experienced jihadists who had fought in Bosnia. Hazmi and Mihdhar arrived in the United States in mid-January 2000. In spring 2000, Hazmi and Mihdhar took flying lessons in San Diego, California, but both spoke little English, did poorly with flying lessons, and eventually served as secondary – or "muscle" – hijackers.]In late 1999, a group of men from Hamburg, Germany, arrived in Afghanistan, including Mohamed Atta, Marwan al-Shehhi, Ziad Jarrah, and Ramzi bin al-Shibh. Bin Laden selected these men because they were educated, could speak English, and had experience living in the West New recruits were routinely screened for special skills and al-Qaeda leaders consequently discovered that Hani Hanjour already had a commercial pilot's license. Hanjour arrived in San Diego on December 8, 2000, joining Hazmi. They soon left for Arizona, where Hanjour took refresher training. Marwan al-Shehhi arrived at the end of May 2000, while Atta arrived on June 3, 2000, and Jarrah arrived on June 27, 2000. Bin al-Shibh applied several times for a visa to the United States, but as a Yemeni, he was rejected out of concerns he would overstay his visa and remain as an illegal immigrant. Bin al-Shibh stayed in Hamburg, providing coordination between Atta and Mohammed. The three Hamburg cell members all took pilot training in South Florida.in spring 2001, the secondary hijackers began arriving in the United States. In July 2001, Atta met with bin al-Shibh in Spain, where they coordinated details of the plot, including final target selection. Bin al-Shibh also passed along bin Laden's wish for the attacks to be carried out as soon as possible

The horrible massive attack has been a very unexpected. For a day that had started normally like any other day it had a very strange ending that had killed many lives. The attack has been planned for years and that had the effect they wanted maybe even better because it killed a lot of people and caused The Twin Towers to explode. Who would believe that a lot of that can happen in a day 24 for hours for The Twin Towers to disappear like if they weren’t even built there. Surprisingly this ending caused many families to lose their family members.