2. 9/11/01
• 19 Terrorists hijacked four planes.
• The intended targets were:
– Twin Towers (North and South)
– The Pentagon
– Washington D.C.
• Three of the four targets were hit,
Washington D.C. was not.
3. Who?
• Al Qaeda is the terrorist group associated with
the attacks
• The 19 hijackers were composed of;
– The first hijackers to arrive in the United States were
Khalid al-Mihdhar and Nawaf al-Hazmi, who settled in
the San Diego area in January 2000. They were
followed by three hijacker-pilots, Mohamed Atta,
Marwan al-Shehhi, and Ziad Jarrah early in the
summer of 2000 to undertake flight training in south
Florida. The fourth hijacker-pilot, Hani Hanjour,
arrived in San Diego in December 2000. The rest of
the "muscle hijackers" arrived in the spring and early
summer of 2001.
4. Airplanes
• American Airlines Flight 11
– Departure: Boston, MA
– Destination: Los Angles, CA
• United Airlines Flight 175
– Departure: Boston, MA
– Destination: Los Angles, CA
• American Airlines Flight 77
– Departure: Dulles, VA
– Destination: Los Angles, CA
• United Airlines Flight 93
– Departure: Newark, NJ
– Destination: San Francisco, CA
5. Timeline
• 8:20am: Flight 11 declared hijacked
• 8:42am: Flight 175 declared hijacked
• 8:46am: Flight 11 crashes into North
Tower
• 8:50am: Flight 77 is hijacked
• 8:55: President George W. Bush is
alerted. The President is at Emma E.
Booker Elementary School in Sarasota,
Florida
6. Timeline
• 9:02am: Flight 175 crashes into the South
Tower. Broadcasted on live television.
• 9:08am: FAA grounds all planes.
• 9:28am: Flight 93 is hijacked.
• 9:37am: Flight 77 crashes into the
Westside of The Pentagon.
• 9:43am: The White House is evacuated.
• 9:59am: The South Tower collapses.
7. Timeline
• 10:02am: The Sears Tower in Chicago is
evacuated.
• 10:03am: Flight 93 crashes in Somerset
County, PA.
– Passengers overthrew the terrorists and crash
the plane before it hits Washington D.C., its
intended target.
• 10:28am: The North Tower collapses.
• 5:20pm: 7 World Trade Center collapses.
17. The Aftermath
• Heightened security at airports and
various mass transit locations.
• The Patriot Act
• Homeland Security
• War On Terrorism
• Surge in military enrollment
18. Death of Osama Bin Laden
• Osama bin Laden, head of the Islamist militant
group al-Qaeda, was killed in Pakistan on
May 2, 2011, shortly after 1 a.m.
• Operation Neptune Spear, was ordered by
United States President Obama.
• The mission was carried out by US Navy SEALs
from the United States Naval Special Warfare
Development Group of the Joint Special
Operations Command.
• He was killed in his compound in Pakistan.
21. Conspiracy Theories of 9/11
• 9/11 was an inside job
– US planned 9/11 to initiate war on Al-Qaeda
• The planes had no windows and carried bombs.
• The US Government knew about the attacks before they happened.
• 9/11 did not exist.
