September 11thMake a list of what

you knowMake a list of what you want to know

• suicide attacks and simultaneous bombings of different targets• pledge of loyalty to Osama bin Laden• undergone training in one of its camps in Afghanistan, Pakistan,

Iraq or Sudan, but not taken any pledge• killing of civilians is religiously sanctioned

• Want a complete break from all foreign influences in Muslim countries

• creation of a new Islamic world wide unity of Muslim political world.

Militant Islamist organization founded by Osama bin Laden in Pakistan in 1988/89

Osama bin Laden -End American involvement in

Muslim countries.

What is it?

What do they want?

How they do it?

Why? • Believe that a Christian–Jewish alliance is conspiring to destroy Islam• Ignore man made laws – for laws rooted in religion

Al Quada

US is attacked

Hijacking & crashing of four commercial airplanes• Major shift in American

foreign policy• First attack since Pearl

Harbor (50 yrs earlier)• Confidence & Safety in

nation’s power shaken

September 11, 2001

Gets news of attack while reading to an elementary class.

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September 11, 2001: Timeline of Terrorism

(by David Johnson)

All times are Eastern Daylight Time

8:45 a.m. - American Airlines Flight 11, Boston to Los Angeles with 92 people onboard, crashes into the north tower of the World Trade Center in New York City.

9:03 a.m. - United Airlines Flight 175, Boston to Los Angeles with 65 people onboard, flies into the south tower of the World Trade Center.

9:31 a.m. - Speaking from Florida, President George Bush pledges the United States will hunt down the guilty parties.

9:40 a.m. - American Flight 77, en route from Dulles Airport, Washington DC, to Los Angeles with 64 people onboard, crashes into the Pentagon.

9:48 a.m. - The U.S. Capitol and the West Wing of the White House are evacuated.

9:49 a.m. - The Federal Aviation Administration bans all aircraft takeoffs in the United States.

9:50 a.m. - South tower of the World Trade Center collapses.

9:58 a.m. - Emergency operator in Pennsylvania receives a call from a passenger on United Flight 93, Newark to San Francisco with 45 people onboard, stating the plane was being hijacked.

10:00 a.m. - United Flight 93 crashes about 80 miles southeast of Pittsburgh.

10:29 a.m. - North tower of the World Trade Center collapses.

11:00 a.m. - New York City Mayor Rudolph Giuliani orders lower Manhattan evacuated.

11:40 a.m. - With U.S. military on nuclear alert, Bush taken to Barksdale Air Force Base in Louisiana.

1:20 p.m. - Bush boards Air Force One for Offutt Air Force Base in Nebraska, headquarters of the U.S. Strategic Air Command.

2:51 p.m. - U.S. military deploys missile destroyers and other equipment in New York and Washington.

5:20 p.m. - Another World Trade Center building collapses.

7:00 p.m. - Bush arrives in Washington.

8:31 p.m. - Bush addresses the nation, vowing to punish "evil acts."

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Chaos

GRIEF

Patriotism

Speeches following 9/11

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War on TerrorismTOP PRIORITY:

FINDING & PROSECUTING THOSE RESPONSIBLE

Me

again!

Osama bin Laden’s al Qaeda behind attack• Against US troops in Saudi Arabia• Against US boycott of Iraq• Against US support of Israel• Against Middle East governments that are

pro-Western• Hiding in Afghanistan where Islamic

fundamentalist Taliban government allowed them to have training camps

Any government that sponsored terrorism, even if it did not itself commit terrorists acts, should be

held accountable!

Demands Taliban turn over bin Laden

to U.S. custody!

US troops joined by Great Britain and other allies into Afghanistan.

Taliban overthrown in four months!

Several leaders captured but not bin Laden.

Improving National Security

Patriot Act – gave law enforcement broader powers to monitor suspected terrorists.

Department of Homeland SecurityNew Cabinet-level to coordinate domestic security matters between fedeal, state, and local agencies

Violates civil liberties?

Give up some freedoms for improved protection?

Are you for or against the Patriot Act?Safety or liberty - discuss

How does this affect you?