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  • 8 Years Since September 11

    8 YEARS SINCE SEPTEMBER 11

    PanARMENIAN.Net
    11.09.2009 15:07 GMT+04:00

    /PanARMENIAN.Net/ It has been eight years since the simple date
    September 11 became an horrific watershed moment for the United States
    and the rest of the world.

    This year the annual commemoration of the attacks in the US
    has been given a new name - the National Day of Service and
    Remembrance. President Barack Obama and his wife Michelle have called
    on Americans to carry out community service as a way of honoring
    "the heroes of that dark day".

    The September 11 attacks were a series of coordinated suicide attacks
    by Al-Qaeda upon the United States. On that morning, 19 Al-Qaeda
    terrorists hijacked four commercial passenger jet airliners. The
    hijackers intentionally crashed two of the airliners into the Twin
    Towers of the World Trade Center in New York City, killing everyone
    on board and many others working in the buildings. Both buildings
    collapsed within two hours, destroying nearby buildings and damaging
    others. The hijackers crashed a third airliner into the Pentagon in
    Arlington, Virginia, just outside of Washington, D.C. The fourth plane
    crashed into a field near Shanksville in rural Pennsylvania, after
    some of its passengers and flight crew attempted to retake control
    of the plane, which the hijackers had redirected toward Washington,
    D.C. There were no survivors from any of the flights.
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