2 The Pentagon attack
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The third plane American Airlines 77 was crashed into the Pentagon, which is the head office of United States Department of Defense in Arlington County, Virginia. This collapsed the West side of the building. The fourth plane was heading towards Washington DC, but crashed in a field in Shanksville, after passengers and staff tried to overcome the terrorists.
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Osama Bin Laden, the head of Al Qaeda said that US support of Israel, support for attacks against Muslims in Somalia, Lebanon, Chechnya and many such things were the motives behind the attack. 125 people lost their lives in the Pentagon attack and more than 90 countries lost their citizens in the attacks overall.
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Out of the 125 people who lost their lives at the Pentagon, 70 were civilians and 55 were personnel working for US military or US Navy. Lieutenant General Timothy Maude, an Army Deputy Chief of Staff, was the highest-ranking military official killed at the Pentagon.
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3 Aftermath of 9/11
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US President George Bush immediately declared war on terrorism in the aftermath. Their objective was to defeat terrorist like Osama Bin Laden. The US invaded Iraq in search of Weapons of Mass destruction and also invaded Afghanistan in order to oust the Taliban regime from the country. The Talibani forces regrouped in Western Pakistan and the war moved onto Pakistan until Taliban was completely forced out of the region.
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In Iraq, Saddam Hussein was declared a sponsor of terrorism, ever since Iraq invaded Kuwait in the 1990s. Baghdad fell to US troops in 2003 and Saddam’s government was dissolved quickly. Saddam was captured by US forces in 2003 and was later executed in 2006.
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