OSZ Recht Fach: Englisch Frau Töpfer Thema: September 11, 2001 Datum: 07.11.2005



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The morning of the September 11, 2001
On September 11, 2001 terrorists hijacked four planes after takeoff. At 8:46 a.m. the first plane (American Airlines flight 11 from Boston) crashed into the North Tower at the World Trade Center in Manhattan, New York. Another plane from United Airlines (flight 175 from Boston) crashed into the South Tower at 9:03 a.m. After that the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration shut down all New York area Airports and closed the bridges und tunnels leading into New York City. They also grounded all domestic flights.
At 9:45 a.m. American Airlines flight 77 crashed into the Pentagon. Ten minutes later the South Tower at the World Trade Center collapsed. The White House had been evacuated. Additional 5 minutes later a large section of one side of the Pentagon collapsed. At the same time the United Airlines flight 93 crashed in a wooded area nearly Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania after passengers confronted the hijackers. It is supposed that it meant to fall off into the White House or the Washington Capitol. At 10:28 a.m. the north Tower at the World Trade Center collapsed, too. This caused the worst peacetime tragedy in American country´s history.


Reasons for this terrorist attack / motivation for the terrorists
Islamistic groupings like the Al-Qaida conspired to a fight against the Judaism for still a few years. Their main enemies are on the one hand Israel and the USA on the other hand. Reasons for this refusal is the putatively source of a Jewish conspiracy of the world in the USA. The fight of Islam is both propagandistically and with violence, often in form of terrorism against civilians. But they also attacked military destinations.
There are theories for reasons of these declarations of war. Especially in theories of anti-imperialistic explanations they make the west (that means mainly Israel and the USA) responsible for the hate due to its putative “zionism” coinage, expressed Osama Bin Laden after the attacks on 09/11.


Causes and facts
At the terrorist attack died about 3000 people (266 passengers in the airplanes, about 2600 persons and firemans in the WTC and 124 persons in the Pentagon.
Due to the terrorist attack the USA declared a war against the terrorism, because the human rights were infringed. Many western countries took this as occasion to aggravate entry conditions, to broaden measures of monitoring and to retrench human rights. More than 1000 people (mostly foreigners with Asiatic or Arabian origin) have been arrested, many of them without impeachment.

Meaning of the WTC:
Both towers of the World Trade Center belonged with the Statue of Liberty to the emblems of New York. Since September 11, 2001 they stood on the fourth and fifth positions of the biggest buildings in the world.