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    On the eleventh day of September year 2001, the United States of America was shaken to its core. 19 militants associated with the extremist Islamic group al-Qaeda conducted the deadliest terrorist attack on American soil in U.S. history by hijacking four airliners and carrying out suicide attacks against different targets in the United States (Encyclopedia Britannica, 2015). Two of the hijacked planes were flown into the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center complex in New York City, New York, a…

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    September 11, 2001 marked the most deadly and devastating day in history for New York City Firefighters, nearly 350 firefighters died. Millions of US citizens watched the twin towers fall from the brutal attacks from the Islamic terrorists group called AL-Qaeda. Even though the United States were about to go at war with a country and a terrorist group that has been at war nearly its entire exist. The United States still had the mind set to take out the terrorist cells but at the same time bring…

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    On September 11, 2001, our nations was faced with a very tragic terror attack. That attack led to many American losing their lives and fighting to find the pieces of their lives that was left in the dark. The country was at a loss because we had to act fast and become receptive to the possibility of America being attacked more in the future. The current President at the time, President George Bush, was very proactive when it came to the attacks on the nation. The president and his cabinet…

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    How did 9/11 change America Forever? The morning September 11th, 2001, Americans across the country began their day just as they would on any other Tuesday morning. New York citizens woke up to clear and sunny skies, attending to their daily routines. What was unknown, was that the day they had just begun would be remembered as the Longest, most tragic day in New York’s history when the Twin towers collapsed in a terrorist attack. Many lives were affected differently, but how did this day change…

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    On September 11, 2001, al-Qaeda terrorists hijacked four passenger airliners in an act of terror against the United States of America. One plane went down in a field in Pennsylvania, another crashed into the Pentagon. The two remaining planes flew into the World Trade Center buildings in New York City. Cited as the deadliest incident for law enforcement officers, this day struck fear into the hearts of people around the world. On October 1, 20 days after the attacks, New York City Mayor Rudy…

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    The events that led up to the terrorist attacks on September 11, 2001 would be a day we will never forget and it would go down in history as one of the most devastating terrorist attacks on our soil. How would our government respond to this attack and ensure that it does not happen again? How does the Federal Bureau of Investigation(FBI), National Security Branch(NSB), meet these challenges? The National Security Branch(NSB), was created in September 2005 by the Federal Bureau of…

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    affected me is September 11, 2001. On this Tuesday morning everyone went to work or school just as any other day, clueless of what lied ahead of them. This is the day that millions of American lives would change forever. Four terrorist attacks, which targeted United States landmarks to destroy them, all lead by the Islamic terrorist group al-Qaueda. From the Twin-Towers in New York City to the White House in Washington D.C, hijacked planes were on their way to make history. These attacks ending…

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    to a major conflict . One of the most memorable terrorist attacks happened on September 11, 2001 in New York City when two hijacked aircrafts hit the twin towers. This attack killed thousands of people and left even more people traumatized, furious and heart broken. The man responsible was named Osama bin Laden, even though he is held responsible what if I told you that President Bush may have allowed it to happen? A Months before the attack President Bush was warned on several occasions that…

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    Bin Laden, Al Qaeda has had limited success as a terror organization as a whole. It has been said though, if Al Qaeda harnesses the social networking tools that facilitated the “Arab Spring” to spark a transnational spate of spontaneous terrorist attacks (Hoffman, CTC Sentinel,…

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    No Room for First Responders September 11th 2001, two-thousand nine hundred and ninety six people lost their lives. Three hundred and forty three of them were firefighters. Michael Burke, a Wall Street Journalist who is a brother and a son to a firemen, is furious and offended that the families of the first responders were not invited to the 10th anniversary remembrance. By writing this, Burke’s goal is to put pressure on the New York City Mayor, Mike Bloomberg. Also, Burke wanted to leverage…

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