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Remembering 9/11: Here are 10 things you didn't know about September 11 attack
On September 11, 2001, two planes were flown into the famous twin towers of the World Trade Center in New York City.
DNA Web Team | Sep 11, 2018, 06:50 PM IST
1.Fires burned for 99 days
The last fires at Ground Zero weren’t extinguished completely until 19th December, 2001.
Photo Credits: Reuters
2.World Trade Center steel sold to China and India
Over 185,101 tons of steel left at Ground Zero was used in memorials across the US, but some was also sold to China and India.
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3.Three skyscrapers fell in New York
Two planes were flown into the famous twin towers of the World Trade Center in New York City. Not much can be found in coverage of World Trade Center Building 7, a 47-story building thought to have collapsed due to “ancillary damage” from the Twin Towers. However, the third plane had hit this building.
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4.Passengers on planes provide critical information
Passengers on four hijacked flights American 11, United 175, American 77 and United 93 had called their famil members and friends from their cellphones to report the hijacking. this helped the authorities to understand why they could'nt track the hijacked planes.
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5.World Trade Centre was targeted before
On February 26, 1993 a bomb was planted in a van parked in the WTC's underground parking. The bomb exploded killing six people and wounding more than 1,000. “Ramzi Yousef, the Sunni extremist who planted the bomb, said later that he had hoped to kill 250,000 people.”
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6.CIA warned President Clinton about hijackings in 1998
CIA told Clinton that “Bin Ladin was Preparing to Hijack US Aircraft and Other Attacks.” CIA updated the President on 4th December, 1998 in his Daily Brief saying that he was planning to hijack planes to gain the release of Yousef and other terrorists.
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7.US tried multiple attempts to kill Osama bin Laden before 9/11
CIA and other agencies developed a plan to capture bin Laden in early 1998, the report said. That was delayed and then revived, but it was hampered by concerns from military officials about relying on Afghan tribal leaders. Then-national security adviser Sandy Berger was concerned about what would be done with bin Laden if he was captured and whether the evidence against him could lead to a criminal conviction in a US court.
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