Timeline of the September 11, 2001 Attacks - Definition and Overview

September 11, 2001 attacks timeline

Background History

• 1972: One World Trade Center completed.
• 1973: Two World Trade Center completed.
• 1989: Osama bin Laden founds Al-Qaida.
• 1993: World Trade Center bombing
• 1995: Operation Bojinka is discovered by Manila police on a laptop computer in an apartment after an apartment fire
• 1996: The Taliban, a radical Islamic movement, takes control of Afghanistan.
• 1998: The 1998 U.S. embassy bombings in Kenya and Tanzania occur.
• 1999: Indian Airlines Flight 814 hijacked. One passenger dies while the others are released.
• 2000: The USS Cole is bombed in Yemen

Planning and execution

• 1992 - Mohammed Atta arrives in Germany
• 1994 - Planning on Operation Bojinka begins in the Philippines
• 1995 - Operation Bojinka foiled, Said Bahaji and Ramzi Binalshibh arrive in Germany
• 1996 - Marwan al-Shehhi and Ziad Jarrah arrive in Germany
• 1997 - Zakariyah Essabar arrives in Germany
• 1998 - Recruitment of terrorists in Germany starts
• 1999 - Hamburg cell is fully formed
• 2000 - 2000 al-Qaeda Summit in Malaysia, "pilots" head to the United States and train in flying schools
• 2001 - Rest of the hijackers go to the United States, Zacarias Moussaoui comes to the United States and is arrested, other cell members flee Germany

September 11, 2001

Also the United Nations International Day of Peace for 2001[1] (http://www.escwa.org.lb/information/press/un/2001/11sept.html)

• 8:46 AM: American Airlines flight 11 crashes into the World Trade Center north tower
• 9:02 AM: United Airlines flight 175 crashes into the World Trade Center south tower.
• 9:37 AM: American Airlines flight 77 crashes into The Pentagon.
• 9:59 AM: South Tower of World Trade Center collapses.
• 10:03 AM: United Airlines flight 93 crashes in Pennsylvania.
• 10:28 AM: North Tower of World Trade Center collapses.

Rest of September

• September 13: The 'Star-Spangled Banner' is played during the Changing of the Guard at Buckingham Palace. Russia observes a minute's silence. See Memorials and services.
• September 11 to September 18: more than 540 attacks on Arab-Americans living in the US.
• September 20: George W. Bush announces that the USA is at war. See US governmental response.
• September 14 to September 21: Worldwide stock markets plummet. See World economic effects.
• September 15: CIA director George Tenet presents the Worldwide Attack Matrix.

Aftermath of the September 11, 2001 attacks

• October 1: Rudy Giuliani speaks to the United Nations General Assembly
• October 7: U.S. Attack on Afghanistan commences
• November 2001: Uniformed Firefighters Association holds a demonstration against the reduction in firefighters allocated to The Pile.
• March 2002: The Tribute in Light project begins.
• September 2002: First anniversary memorials and services are held throughout the world, particularly the USA.

External links

• "Oh Lucy! - You Gotta Lotta 'Splainin To Do" (http://fromthewilderness.com/free/ww3/02_11_02_lucy.html)
• "White House whitewashers (http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2001/09/27/spin/index.html)" (written 27th Sept 2001)
• "Attacks prompt widespread closings (http://www.cnn.com/2001/US/09/11/attack.closings/)" (written 11th Sept 2001)
• Thompson, Paul, "September_11:_Minute_by_Minute (http://www.cooperativeresearch.org/timeline.jsp?timeline=complete_911_timeline&timeperiod=0:10am-11:50pm%2011%20Sept%202001)".
• Barter, Sheila, "How the World Trade Center fell (http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/1540044.stm)". [ BBC ]