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Apr 18, 2024 · In 2002 the new U.S. president, George W. Bush, argued that the vulnerability of the United States following the September 11 attacks of 2001, combined with Iraq’s alleged continued possession and manufacture of weapons of mass destruction (an accusation that was later proved erroneous) and its support for terrorist groups—which, according to the Bush administration, included al-Qaeda, the ...
The war on terror, officially the Global War on Terrorism ( GWOT ), [2] is a global military campaign initiated by the United States following the September 11 attacks and is the most recent global conflict spanning multiple wars. The main targets of the campaign are militant Islamist movements like Al-Qaeda, Taliban and their allies.
The 2008 Mumbai attacks [14] (also referred to as 26/11attacks) [15] [a] were a series of terrorist attacks that took place in November 2008, when 10 members of Lashkar-e-Taiba, a militant Islamist [16] organisation from Pakistan, carried out 12 coordinated shooting and bombing attacks lasting four days across Mumbai.
For a more general explanation, see Casualties of the September 11 attacks. See also: List of victims of the September 11 attacks (A–G) and List of victims of the September 11 attacks (H–N) These are the nearly 3,000 victims of the September 11 attacks, as they appear inscribed at the National September 11 Memorial & Museum in New York. [1] [2]
Mar 26, 2024 · 2012 Benghazi attacks, assaults on a U.S. diplomatic compound and a nearby CIA annex in the city of Benghazi, Libya, on September 11–12, 2012, which resulted in the deaths of four Americans, including the U.S. ambassador to Libya—the first violent death of a U.S. ambassador since 1988. The incident sparked controversy and ignited a ...
Susan Jaffe reports. Nearly 3000 people died on Sept 11, 2001, when Al-Qaeda terrorists hijacked four commercial airliners and flew them into the twin towers of the World Trade Center, the Pentagon, and crashed one plane in Pennsylvania reportedly headed for a target in Washington, DC. But the deadliest attack on US soil is still claiming lives.
The September 11 attacks (also referred to as September 11, September 11th, or 9/11[nb 1]) were a series of four coordinated terrorist attacks launched by the Islamic terrorist group al-Qaeda upon the United States in New York City and the Washington, D.C. metropolitan area on Tuesday, September 11, 2001. Four passenger airliners were hijacked by 19 al-Qaeda terrorists so they could be flown ...
