The Consequences Of The 9/11 Attacks

Since the events on September 11, 2001, there have been 20 known terrorist plots against New York City. Meaning that, on average, there has been one or two attempted terrorist attacks every year in New York City. These plots were meant to cause economic and social destruction at specific points around New York City. Most of these attacks were set in places such as subways, airports, synagogues, and important business places. With the attacks at these places, there could have been many thousands of deaths from any one attack. The people, or groups of people, involved in these plots were all stopped before these attacks could take place, and steps were taken to prevent possible future attacks of a similar manner.
In 2002, Iyman Faris, a U.S.-based …show more content…
In 2006, four men planned to detonate the jet-fuel storage tanks and supply lines for John F. Kennedy Airport. The supply lines travel underground in New York under highly populated areas. If the lines had been detonated, the explosion would have followed the lines throughout the entire area causing widespread death and destruction. An attack of this scale would have been much worse than 9/11. The man in charge, Russell Defreitas, an airport cargo handler, wanted to carry out this attack to hurt the United States as a whole. Defreitas and his three partners conducted extensive surveillance, and attempted to receive support from an Islamic extremist group as well. Through the Joint Terrorism Task Force, the NYPD worked with the FBI, which placed an informant next to Defreitas, and arrested the four men. They were arrested in New York and received a life sentences after being convicted of conspiracy to attack a public transportation system; conspiracy to destroy a building by fire or explosive; conspiracy to attack aircraft and aircraft materials; conspiracy to destroy international airport facilities; and conspiracy to attack a mass transportation