0759 EDT – American Airlines Flight 11, a Boeing 767, departs Logan Airport with 81 passengers and 11 crew.
0814 EDT – United Airlines Flight 175, a Boeing 767, departs Logan Airport with 56 passengers and 9 crew.
0820 EDT – American Airlines Flight 77 departs Dulles Airport.
0842 EDT – United Airlines Flight 93 departs Newark Airport with 38 passengers and 7 crew.
0845 EDT – Flight 11 crashes into the North Tower of the World Trade Center. It is believed that all of the hijackers congregated in the cockpit at the final stages of the flight to shout their “Allahu akbars” together.
0902 EDT – Flight 175 crashes into the South Tower of the World Trade Center.
0938 EDT – Flight 77 crashes just short of the Pentagon.
0959 EDT – The South Tower of the World Trade Center collapses, 55 minutes 51 seconds after the impact of Flight 175.
1003 EDT – After an uprising by the passengers, Flight 93 crashes in Shanksville, PA.
1010 EDT – Part of the Pentagon collapses.
1028 EDT – The North Tower of the World Trade Center collapses.
Osama Bin Laden tunes in to the radio to hear American news broadcasts of the event. “They were overjoyed when the first plane hit the building,” he said on a video later obtained by American forces, talking about others listening with him that day. “So I said to them: Be patient.” He said, “At the end of the newscast, they reported that a plane just hit the World Trade Center.” “Allah be praised,” replied one of the other men in the videotape.
Witnesses reported seeing people jumping from the towers just before they collapsed.
1800 EDT – Iraq announces the attacks are the fruit of “U.S. crimes against humanity” in an official announcement on state television.
2030 EDT – President Bush addresses the nation, saying “thousands of lives were suddenly ended by evil” and asks for prayers for the families and friends of Tuesday’s victims. “These acts shattered steel, but they cannot dent the steel of American resolve,” he says. The president says the U.S. government will make no distinction between the terrorists who committed the acts and those who harbor them.
2330 EDT – Before sleeping, President Bush enters into his diary: “The Pearl Harbor of the 21st century took place today.”
| A by-the-numbers look at the World Trade Center cleanup: | |
| Tons of debris removed: | 1,642,698 |
| Tons of debris in steel: | 190,568 |
| Number of truckloads required: | 108,444 |
| Days of labor for cleanup: | 242 |
| Hours of labor: | 1,642,698 |
| Number of serious injuries incurred during cleanup: | 35 |
| Total killed at the WTC on Sept. 11: | 2,823 |
| Victims positively identified: | 1,102 |
| Body parts collected: | Over 19,500 |
| Death certificates issued without a body: | 1,616 |
| Average number of viewing platform tickets issued daily: | 6,000 |
| Source: The Associated Press | |
The author of this humble blog has not, and will not, forget what happened to 3000 innocent Americans the morning of September 11, 2001, and will not forget who did it:
- Mohammed ATTA (Flight 11) (also known as Mohammed al-Amir) Born September 1, 1968 in Kafr al Sheikh, Egypt. ATTA grows up in Cairo with his middle-class family.
- Abdulaziz ALOMARI (Flight 11) Saudi Arabian. Little is known about him.
- Walid AL-SHEHRI (Flight 11) From Khamis Mushayt in Saudi Arabia. Former teacher, who left his job allegedly to consult an Islamic holy man about his brother’s mental illness.
- Satam AL-SUQAMI (Flight 11) Born June 28, 1976. Saudi Arabian. Islamic-law-school student at King Fahd University in Riyadh. College roommate of MOQED.
- Wail ALSHEHRI (Flight 11) Born 7/31/73. Brother of Walid. Former phys-ed teacher who left his job because of “mental illness.”
- Marwan AL-SHEHHI (Flight 175) Born in United Arab Emirates on 5/9/78.
- Hamza ALGHAMDI(Flight 175) Born 11/18/80. From Beljurashi in southern Saudi Arabia. Was working in a “humiliating” job as a stockboy in a housewares shop when he was recruited for the jihad.
- Ahmed ALGHAMDI(Flight 175) From Beljurashi in southern Saudi Arabia.
- Fayez Rashid Ahmed Hassan Al-Qadi BANIHAMMAD (Flight 175) (aka Fayez Ahmed) Citizen of United Arab Republic.
- Mohand ALSHEHRI (Flight 175) Former student at the Imam Muhammed Ibn Saud Islamic University in Abha, Saudi Arabia for one semester.
- Hani HANJOUR (Flight 77)- Saudi Arabian Born August 13, 1972. Son of a wealthy businessman from the wealthy al-Faisaliyah section of Taif.
- Khalid ALMIDHAR (Flight 77) Saudi Arabian. Veteran Al-Qaeda operative about whom little is known.
- Majed MOQED (Flight 77) Saudi Arabian. Law student at the King Fahd University in Riyadh. The son of a head of the Baniauf tribe from Annakhil near Medina. Sometimes listed as the third “logistics” person after ALMIDHAR and Nawaq ALHAZMI.
- Nawaq ALHAZMI (Flight 77) “He told me once that his father had tried to kill him when he was a child. He never told me why, but he had a long knife scar on his forearm,” said an acquaintance. Brother of a police chief in the coastal town of Jizan.
- Salem ALHAZMI (Flight 77) Saudi.
- Ziad al-JARRAH (Flight 93) Born in Al Marj, Lebanon May 11, 1975. The son of a civil servant and a schoolteacher. Educated in a Catholic school in Beirut.
- Ahmed ALNAMI (Flight 93) Born December 1977. Saudi, from the town of Abha. Former law student at the King Khaled University Islamic Law School in Abha.
- Ahmed Ibrahim AL-HAZNAWI (Flight 93) Born October 11, 1980. Saudi from the village of Hezna. Son of an imam, and reportedly became one himself. Close to Hamza and Ahmed ALGHAMDI.
- Saeed ALGHAMDI (Flight 93) Saudi, from Khamis Mushayt.
“We love death. The US loves life. That is the big difference between us.” – Osama Bin Laden
Is that so, Osama? Then how about we give you all the death you could ever want.
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