On Dec. The bombers targeted a second hotel, the Aden Movenpick, where they believed American troops might also be staying. That bomb detonated prematurely in the hotel car park, around the same time as the other bomb explosion, killing an Austrian tourist and a Yemeni citizen.
Bin Laden claimed responsibility for the attack in On Feb. The blast killed six people and injured 1, others. The attack's mastermind, Ramzi Yousef, had been trained in al-Qaida camps.
On Nov. Five Americans and two Indian nationals were killed and 60 people were wounded. In August , al-Qaida operatives carried out the bombings of the U. In October , an explosion in a small boat alongside the USS Cole, a Navy destroyer, as it was refueling in the Yemeni port of Aden, ripped a foot-wide meter hole near the waterline of the Cole, killing 17 American sailors and injuring many more.
The most destructive act ascribed to al-Qaida was its series of attacks in the United States on Sept. Four commercial jet airliners were hijacked. Two of the planes crashed into the twin towers, which later collapsed, destroying the rest of the World Trade Center building complex.
The third crashed into the Pentagon and the fourth into a field during a struggle between passengers and hijackers to control the airplane.
Nearly 3, people were killed in the attacks, making them the deadliest act of terrorism to occur in history, in which more than 6, others were injured. Bin Laden initially denied his organization's involvement, but later, in admitted al-Qaida was responsible.
But then he disappeared. The CIA had taken him to a "black site" where "enhanced interrogation techniques" were used. Mohammed was waterboarded at least times, something described as "near drownings". He was subjected to rectal rehydration, stress positions, sleep deprivation, forced nudity, and told his children would be killed.
He would confess to multiple plots during that time. But a Senate report later found that much of the intelligence supposedly produced had been made up by the detainee. After details of the CIA's detention programme were revealed, "high value detainees" like Mohammed were moved to Guantanamo Bay in The FBI were finally allowed access.
In January Frank Pellegrino came face-to-face with the man he had pursued for so long. The former FBI man won't disclose the details of what was said but conceded "he's a very engaging guy with a sense of humour, believe it or not". KSM has often been seen "grandstanding" at hearings in Guantanamo and Pellegrino describes the world's most infamous terrorist suspect as "Kardashian" in his craving for attention but says he shows no remorse.
Would he confess or want to make the most of a trial? After six days of talking Mohammed finally said he had had enough. A plan to hold a trial in New York faltered after public and political opposition. Keep him down in Guantanamo,'" says Pellegrino, himself a New Yorker.
Next came a military tribunal at Guantanamo. But procedural delays, compounded by the Covid pandemic closing the base, have made it a long-drawn out process. More hearings are taking place this week but an end looks a long way off. The September 11 attacks were the deadliest attacks President Donald Trump paid tribute Tuesday to the "heroes" who fought back against hijackers on September 11, , vowing he would do whatever it takes to keep America safe.
Just days before the anniversary of the September 11 attacks, trains are once again running through a New York City subway station buried when the Twin Towers fell 17 years ago. The collision caused a massive explosion that showered burning debris over surrounding buildings and onto the streets below. It immediately became clear that America was under attack. The hijackers were Islamic terrorists from Saudi Arabia and several other Arab nations.
Some of the terrorists had lived in the United States for more than a year and had taken flying lessons at American commercial flight schools. The 19 terrorists easily smuggled box-cutters and knives through security at three East Coast airports and boarded four early-morning flights bound for California , chosen because the planes were loaded with fuel for the long transcontinental journey.
Soon after takeoff, the terrorists commandeered the four planes and took the controls, transforming ordinary passenger jets into guided missiles. Jet fuel from the Boeing caused a devastating inferno that led to the structural collapse of a portion of the giant concrete building, which is the headquarters of the U. Department of Defense. All told, military personnel and civilians were killed in the Pentagon, along with all 64 people aboard the airliner. Less than 15 minutes after the terrorists struck the nerve center of the U.
The structural steel of the skyscraper, built to withstand winds in excess of miles per hour and a large conventional fire, could not withstand the tremendous heat generated by the burning jet fuel. At a. Only six people in the World Trade Center towers at the time of their collapse survived. Almost 10, others were treated for injuries, many severe.
Because the plane had been delayed in taking off, passengers on board learned of events in New York and Washington via cell phone and Airfone calls to the ground. Knowing that the aircraft was not returning to an airport as the hijackers claimed, a group of passengers and flight attendants planned an insurrection. One of the passengers, Thomas Burnett, Jr.
I love you, honey. Sandy Bradshaw, a flight attendant, called her husband and explained that she had slipped into a galley and was filling pitchers with boiling water.
The passengers fought the four hijackers and are suspected to have attacked the cockpit with a fire extinguisher.
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