11/9 by Emilio

The attacks of 11 September 2001 were a series of terrorist attacks that day committed suicide in the United States by members of Al Qaeda jihadist network by hijacking airliners to be hit several targets and killed nearly 3,000 people and wounding 6,000, and the destruction of the World Trade Center environment in New York and serious damage to the Pentagon, in the State of Virginia, being the episode that preceded the war in Afghanistan and the adoption by the U.S. government and its allies in the policy called War on Terror.
The attacks were committed by nineteen members of Al-Qaeda jihadist network, divided into four groups of hijackers, each with a terrorist pilot in charge of flying the plane once reduced and the cabin crew. The planes of American Airlines Flight 11 and United Airlines 175, were the first to be kidnapped, both crashed into the twin towers of the World Trade Center, the first into the north tower and the second against South shortly after, causing both skyscrapers to collapse in the next two hours.
The third hijacked plane belonged to American Airlines Flight 77 and was used to being hit against one of the walls of the Pentagon in Virginia. The fourth plane, belonging to United Airlines Flight 93, did not reach any goal to be crashed in an open field near Shanksville, Pennsylvania, after losing control in the cabin as a result of the confrontation of the passengers and crew with the terrorist.
The attacks left more than 6,000 injured, the death of 2,973 people and the disappearance of others resulting 24.4 also the 19 terrorists dead.
The attacks, which were immediately condemned as horrendous terrorist attacks by the Security Council of the UN, is characterized by the use of commercial airliners as weapons, causing widespread fear reaction worldwide and particularly in Western countries, which altered policies since international air safety.

taken: http://www.proyectosalonhogar.com/11_septiembre/indice.htm