American History: Terrorists Attack America on 9/11
29 March 2012
People run from the collapse of World Trade Center Tower in New York City on September eleventh, 2001
STEVE EMBER: Welcome to THE MAKING OF A NATION – American history in VOA Special English. I’m Steve Ember.
This week in our series, we begin the story of the presidency of George W. Bush. His first term came to be defined by the worst terrorist attack against the United States in the nation's history.
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George W. Bush had been in office for less than eight months when the events of September eleventh, two thousand one, took place.
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“A lot of smoke in lower Manhattan.”
“A plane has crashed into one of the towers of the World Trade Center”
“Good lord, this is just a horrific moment.”
The day is remembered as 9-11.
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On that morning, nineteen al-Qaida terrorists hijacked four large passenger airplanes on the East Coast. The planes were flying to California so they were heavy with fuel. Each group of hijackers included a trained pilot.
American Airlines Flight 11 had just left Boston, Massachusetts, when five hijackers seized control of the plane.
AIR TRAFFIC CONTROLLER: “Is that American 11 trying to call?”
HIJACKER PILOT MOHAMMED ATTA: We have some planes. Just stay quiet and you will be OK. We are returning to the airport.”
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