9/11 2001 Twin Towers, The Pentagon and Washington D.C

9/11 2001
The destruction of the World Trade Centre on September 11, 2001 was a horrific event that hugely shocked the world. The attacks by the Afghan terrorist group al-Qaeda included New Yorks Twin Towers (World Trade Centre), the Pentagon in Virginia, and a failed attack on Washington DC (it is assumed that this was the intended location of attack) when passengers resisted the terrorist and crashed the plane into a field in southwest Pennsylvania. The attacks claimed around 3,000 lives and the ‘Twin Towers’ is the more famous event of the four attacks that occurred on September 11, 2001.

This event greatly changed the world, the attacks were on a whole new level of terrorism involving hijacking commercial planes with civilians on-board and aiming them at a building in order to kill even more, the plane acted like a bomb when the fuel ignited thus causing even more damage. The attacks were seen as a Direct attack on The United States and all NATO (North Atlantic Treaty Organization) nations. President George W. Bush announced “There acts shatter steel, but they cannot dent the steel of American resolve.” With this Britain and The United States began an immediate war in Iraqi aimed at eliminating Terrorism.

This war is currently still in progress and now involves many more countries including Australia, it is because of this that the 9/11 attacks have had such a massive impact on the world as its aftermath continues to shape our societies. One of the changes the attacks have caused are tighter security in airports and a change in Civil Liberties as under law you can be, if suspected to be a terrorist, held in jail without a trial.

The terrorist attacks of September 11 have also greatly adversely affected the attitude of western society towards Muslims. Despite the fact that most Muslim communities around the world condemned the 9/11 attacks the actions of al-Qaeda have unfortunately given rise to anti Muslim attitudes.