1. The New York Times wrote an article about everysingle 9/11 victim.
Four years after the tragic bombing of the twin towers the New York Times revisited all of the families to see how they were coping with life and to do an article about their loved one that passed. We are sure that this was not an easy task talking to all of the different family members about their loss.
2. Al-Qaeda initially considered targeting nuclear power plants on 9/11 but decided against it, fearing things could “get out of control.”
A reporter from the al-Jazeera news had a chance to spend two days with a captured high commander of al Queda, this is what he had to say:
“About two and a half years before the holy raids on Washington and New York, the military committee held a meeting during which we decided to start planning for a martyrdom operation inside America. As we were discussing targets, we first thought of striking at a couple of nuclear facilities but decided against it for fear it would go out of control.”
“You do not need to know more than that at this stage, and anyway it was eventually decided to leave out nuclear targets for now.”
3. Along with 1.4 million tons of debris removed, 19,435 body parts were recovered from the WTCafter 9/11.
After nine long months of cleanup of debri and survivors (and body parts), they recovered 1.8 million tons of wreckage. That is a lot of stuff to sift through! Thankfully thousands of volunteers and many donations came in to help aid the efforts of the local firemen and
4. The 9/11 attacks also destroyed US$100 million in art including work from Pablo Picasso.
Some of the things that were destroyed in 9/11 were a large tapestry by Spanish artist Joan Miro that hung in the lobby of 2 World Trade Center; paintings by Pablo Picasso, David Hockney and Roy Lichtenstein; works by Paul Klee and Le Corbusier in the Marriott Hotel’s collection; and Auguste Rodin drawings and sculptures owned by the Cantor Fitzgerald brokerage firm, which lost 650 employees in the disaster and whose late founder was a renowned Rodin
5. The CIA had a secret office on the 25th floor of 7 World Trade Center, another nearby building that collapsed after the 9/11 attacks.
6. Family Guy’s creator had a ticket for a 9/11 plane but came 10 minutes late.
7. Two F16 pilots went on a suicide mission to stop Flight 93 on 9/11. In the end, the flight’s passengers took the plane down.
One of the pilots said, “We wouldn’t be shooting it down. We’d be ramming the aircraft,” Penney recalls of her charge that day. “I would essentially be a kamikaze pilot.”
8. 9/11 was not the first terrorist attack on theWorld Trade Center. A bombing in February of1993 killed six people.
On February 26, 1993, a truck bomb was detonated below the North Tower of the World Trade Center in New York City. The 1,336 pounds (606 kg) urea nitrate–hydrogen gas enhanced device was intended to send the North Tower (Tower 1) crashing into the South Tower (Tower 2), bringing both towers down and killing tens of thousands of people. It failed to do so but killed six people and injured more than a
9. The man who ordered the grounding of all aircraft in the U.S. on 9/11 was on his first day on the job.
Ben Sliney was on the first day of his new job when he had to ground all air traffic. He recounts what happened: “When I issued that order to land regardless of destination, we were just trying to do something to try and resolve what was occurring and at least separate the good guys from the bad guys,” Sliney said.
10. 9/11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed sent the FBI on wild goose chases, literally, by claiming that some geese in Central Park had explosives stuffed up their ass.
“He had us chasing the goddamn geese in Central Park because he said some of them had explosives stuffed up their ass,” former FBI counterterrorism agent, Ali Soufan, told the reporters.
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Four years after the tragic bombing of the twin towers the New York Times revisited all of the families to see how they were coping with life and to do an article about their loved one that passed. We are sure that this was not an easy task talking to all of the different family members about their loss.
2. Al-Qaeda initially considered targeting nuclear power plants on 9/11 but decided against it, fearing things could “get out of control.”
A reporter from the al-Jazeera news had a chance to spend two days with a captured high commander of al Queda, this is what he had to say:
“About two and a half years before the holy raids on Washington and New York, the military committee held a meeting during which we decided to start planning for a martyrdom operation inside America. As we were discussing targets, we first thought of striking at a couple of nuclear facilities but decided against it for fear it would go out of control.”
“You do not need to know more than that at this stage, and anyway it was eventually decided to leave out nuclear targets for now.”
3. Along with 1.4 million tons of debris removed, 19,435 body parts were recovered from the WTCafter 9/11.
After nine long months of cleanup of debri and survivors (and body parts), they recovered 1.8 million tons of wreckage. That is a lot of stuff to sift through! Thankfully thousands of volunteers and many donations came in to help aid the efforts of the local firemen and
4. The 9/11 attacks also destroyed US$100 million in art including work from Pablo Picasso.
5. The CIA had a secret office on the 25th floor of 7 World Trade Center, another nearby building that collapsed after the 9/11 attacks.
6. Family Guy’s creator had a ticket for a 9/11 plane but came 10 minutes late.
7. Two F16 pilots went on a suicide mission to stop Flight 93 on 9/11. In the end, the flight’s passengers took the plane down.
One of the pilots said, “We wouldn’t be shooting it down. We’d be ramming the aircraft,” Penney recalls of her charge that day. “I would essentially be a kamikaze pilot.”
8. 9/11 was not the first terrorist attack on theWorld Trade Center. A bombing in February of1993 killed six people.
On February 26, 1993, a truck bomb was detonated below the North Tower of the World Trade Center in New York City. The 1,336 pounds (606 kg) urea nitrate–hydrogen gas enhanced device was intended to send the North Tower (Tower 1) crashing into the South Tower (Tower 2), bringing both towers down and killing tens of thousands of people. It failed to do so but killed six people and injured more than a
9. The man who ordered the grounding of all aircraft in the U.S. on 9/11 was on his first day on the job.
Ben Sliney was on the first day of his new job when he had to ground all air traffic. He recounts what happened: “When I issued that order to land regardless of destination, we were just trying to do something to try and resolve what was occurring and at least separate the good guys from the bad guys,” Sliney said.
10. 9/11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed sent the FBI on wild goose chases, literally, by claiming that some geese in Central Park had explosives stuffed up their ass.
“He had us chasing the goddamn geese in Central Park because he said some of them had explosives stuffed up their ass,” former FBI counterterrorism agent, Ali Soufan, told the reporters.
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