Effects Of 9/11

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In New York On September 11, 2001 the world was faced with devastation. At approximately 8:45am a plane crashed into the North tower in the World Trade Center. At the time everyone was confused as what was going on. The people of New York thought that the plane lost control somehow and crashed right into the North tower. But at 9:03am that was when a second plane crashed into the south tower. New Yorkers were starting to believe that this was a terrorist attack on the U.S. The question I wanted to know was how the terrorist got on the plane without getting caught going through airport security.
Was this attack caused because of the lack of airport security? Do you think that the airport the hijackers got through weren't intensified enough?
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The government pay attention to whom we are emailing because they want to be on high alert. Since 9/11, many cities, including New York have beefed up their security and surveillance. Here in the United States we've had many terrorist attacks leading up to why airport security has intensified. The ways they have intensified is by hiring more security, getting better surveillance, and being stricter on rules. After the attack in New York, president still made Bush ordered what he described as a major increase in the number in armed plain clothes sky materials on planes. Although they didn't say how many, he still made it a must do on his check list. In the last few years there have been many reports of bomb threats at airports in the United …show more content…
The only people that were allowed to fly in the sky where the U.S. marshal as the time. Back at the airports they were doing immediate search for any suspicious suspects. The policemen were out with their canine dogs trying to catch the person that was doing this. This is one of the reasons why the airport security should be updated and checked over repeatedly. Our new president, Donald Trump, says he want all immigrants to go back to where they came from and I agree with that. I agree with him because they try to pretend they like living and being in the United States then they try to kill

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