On September 11, 2001, four planes were Hijacked and used for massive destruction. Two planes hit the world trade center, one at the pentagon, and one crashed into a field in Pensylvania. The planes were taken by al-Qaeda, which is a militant Sunni Islamist multi-national organization founded in 1988 by Osama bin Laden. The events of 9/11 impacted the U.S in multiple ways. First, U.S. troops marched to Afghanistan one month after 9/11 to eliminate the leader of al-Qaeda, who is named Osama Bin Laden. The troops succeeded and also removed the Taliban government harboring al-Qaeda. Mathew Green produces and edits The Lowdown, KQED’s multimedia news education blogs, and says “…more than 8,000 U.S. troops are still there to stem the ongoing Taliban
