The September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center buildings in New York remain the symbolic crimes for the ongoing U.S. war on terror ( Media pg 43). In these attacks the Islamic terrorist group al-Qaeda hijacked four commercial aircraft in mid flight.
Flew two of them into the World Trade Center Towers in New York City, and one into the
Pentagon in Washington, D.C. The fourth crashed in Pennsylvania due to passenger heroics.
The Trade Center Towers in New York were selected by al-Qaeda because of their symbolism of the U.S economic power with the terrorist goal of socially reconstructing them to be a new symbol of U.S vulnerability.
The events of September 11, 2001 are part of an ongoing