9/11

Saudi Arabia

Osama Bin Laden was from ____________

Osama Bin Laden

-Islamic fundamentalist

-had a college degree

-father was a billionaire in construction

Islamic fundamentalist

Hates freedom of speech and religion, gender equality, the US, Jews, modernism, and people who aren’t Muslim.

Islamic moderate

-seek the 5 pillars of Islam

-can peacefully coexist with non-muslims

-does not follow the violent verses of the Keran

Islamic Serularists

People who say they Muslim but don’t really follow the 5 pillars.

Soviet Union, afghanistan

In 1979 the _________ invades __________

Afghanistan

The US side with __________ and provided war supplies

Afghanistan, Soviet Union

Osama went to ___________ to fight against ______________

1989

In _________ the soviet union left Afghanistan

Saddam Hussein

-dictator of iraq

invaded Kuwait (1990)

USA

Osama was rejected by Saudi Arabia in favor of the ________

Al Qaeda

-a terrorist group that Bin Laden formed in the 90s

-means “the base” or “the foundation”

-commit mass murder terrorist attacks all over the world and kills Americans overseas

Terrorist

A person or group who uses violence or threats of violence to get people to do what they want

Khalid Sheikh

-chosen by Bin Laden to plan attacks

-planned 9/11

Hijackers

teams of __________ are moved to the US (undercover) to prepare for attacks (on student visas)

team

-4 “muscle” hijackers

-1 trained pilot

Flight 11

-1st plane to hit the world trade center

-hits at over 500 mph

flight 175

-Hits the 2nd tower

-(2nd)

flight 77

-hit the Pentagon

-(3rd)

flight 93

-(4th)

-passengers fought back and the plane ended up being crashed into a field in pennsylvania

-we don’t know for sure where the plane was headed but we think it was headed for the US capital building

pentagon

-US military headquarters

-virginia (Washington DC)

WTC

-twin towers

-located in Manhattan (southern manhattan)

Boroughs

The 5 sections of New York City

Staten Island, Brooklyn, Bronx, Queens, and Manhattan

the 5 sections of NYC

Freedom tower

-replaces the twin towers

-is 1776 ft tall

water fountains

-the wtc memorial

-in the exact location and shape of the twin towers

Pentagon memorial

Has a bench for each person who died with a lit up rectangle of water underneath it

flight 93 memorial

A tall marble panel and a windchimes for each person that died near Shanksville Pennsylvania

Abbottabod, Pakistan

Where Bin Laden was in hiding

Rob O’weil

The first person to shoot Bin Laden