
Nearly 3,000 people were killed in the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, when hijacked planes crashed into the World Trade Center in New York, the Pentagon in Arlington and a field in Pennsylvania.
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On September 11, 2001, the Islamist extremist group Al-Qaeda carried out coordinated terrorist attacks against the United States by hijacking four commercial airliners.
Close to 3,000 people are killed when two hijacked planes crash into the World Trade Center in New York on September 11, 2001. A third plane hits the Pentagon in Arlington outside Washington DC and a fourth plane crashes in a field in Pennsylvania. See the pictures here.
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