A world in shock, the September 11 attacks:
Everything was working fine for George Walker Bush ever since the Electroal College of 2000 when he became President. The budget looked fine and most thinks worked out nicely. Today the president was just reading a story to a class of children at the Emma E. Booker School in Sarasota, Florida. The book he read was “The Pet Goat”, by Siegfried Engelmann and Elaine C. Bruner. Suddenly one of the security agents stepped to the president and told him the unthinkable, America was under attack. George Bush the Commander-in-Chief suddenly faced a problem he could not have dreamed of in his worst nightmares. It was ongoing terror attacks in New York and other places and President Bush himself could not be sure if he wasn't the next target, so bringing himself into a secret area was a top priority at the moment. Himself in shock too, Bush stared across the room at first and then decided to read the rest of the chapter in the book. It was meant to distract himself from his own shock, but he also wanted to stay calm for the kids even with the information he had just witnessed.
The September 11 attacks (also referred to as 9/11) were later revealed to be a series of four coordinated terrorist attacks by the Islamic terrorist group al-Qaeda on the United States on the morning of Tuesday, September 11, 2001. The attacks killed 2,996 people, injured over 6,000 others and caused at least $10 billion in infrastructure and property damage. Four passenger airliners operated by two major U.S. Passenger air carriers (United Airlines and American Airlines) — all of which departed from airports in the northeastern United States bound for California — were hijacked by 19 al-Qaeda terrorists. Two of the planes, American Airlines Flights 11 and United Airlines Flight 175, were crashed into the North and South towers, respectively, of the World Trade Center complex in New York City. Within an hour and 42 minutes, both 110-story tower collapsed, with debris and the resulting fires causing partial or complete collapse of all other buildings in the World Trade Center complex, including the 47-story 7 World Trade Center tower, as well as significant damage to ten other large surrounding structures. A third plane, American Airlines Flights 77, was crashed into the Pentagon (the headquarters of the United States Department of Defense) in Arlington County, Virginia, leading to a partial collapse of the building's western side. The fourth plane, United Airlines Flight 93, initially was steered toward Washington D.C., but crashed into a field in Stonycreek Township near Shanksville, Pennsylvania, after its passengers tried to overcome the hijackers. 9/11 was the single deadliest incident for firefighters and law enforcement officers in the history of the United States, with 343 and 72 killed respectively.
Suspicion quickly fell on al-Qaeda and Osama bin Laden, even if he denied any involvement. President George Walker Bush was taken to a secure hideout and fully briefed about everything that had happened. All his dreams of a secure, productive presidency overall were suddenly at stage with this massive terror attack. It was quickly known that bin Laden was hiding in Afghanistan, where the Taliban harbored al-Qaeda. Right now his security services told the president that there was a resistance against the Taliban and al-Qaeda, the Afghan Northern Alliance. The Afghan Northern Alliance, officially known as the United Islamic Front for the Salvation of Afghanistan, was a military front that came to formation in late 1996 after the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan (Taliban) took over Kabul. The United Front was assembled by key leaders of the Islamic State of Afghanistan, particularly president Burhanuddin Rabbani and former Defense Minister Amad Shah Massoud. Initially it included mostly Tajiks but by 2000, leaders of other ethnic groups had joined the Northern Alliance. This included Abdul Rashid Dostum, Mohammad Mohaqiq, Abdul Qadir, Asif Mohseni and others. The only problem was that the Northern Alliance only controlled up to five-percent of the country, maximal ten-percent if these areas counted, where there was a insurgence that supported them.Until then the Northern Alliance was already supported and backed by Russia, Tajikistan and Iran to a extend, mostly for local security reasons in the region, but also by Turkey, India and Uzbekistan. All these nations realized President Bush could very well be regional allies against the rule of the Taliban and al-Qaeda in Afghanistan. Since the 9/11 attacks were also a direct attack on the United States of America, it was possible to bring the NATO (North Atlantic Treaty Organization) in to support any form of military operation against these terrorists.
President Bush had to make a drastically decision, how to answer this horrible terror attacks now. Bush knew that everyone who had seen them on TV, seen how people jumped out of the burning World Trade Center and hit the ground would remember where they were on that day and what they did when they saw the footage of the attacks for the rest of their lives. But the question for George Bush was now what the best way was to strike back, to show these terrorists and their allies that America would never be beaten and would never bow to their demands. Some in the military favored a direct invasion trough neighboring countries, others were for supporting the Northern Alliance and other factions against the Taliban and al-Qaeda, with minimal direct American involvement. The American public wished for revenge for this horrible terror attack, but George Bush remembered the the Gulf War his father George H. W. bush had fought as a president against Saddam Hussein. While Kuwait was freed, the dictator retained his power and continued to destabilize the region with his ambitions for dominance and the wish to get nuclear weapons most believed. The fight against these terrorist and their supporters could take some time and had to be handled professional, both inside the USA with domestic terrorists and outside the United States as well.
Everything was working fine for George Walker Bush ever since the Electroal College of 2000 when he became President. The budget looked fine and most thinks worked out nicely. Today the president was just reading a story to a class of children at the Emma E. Booker School in Sarasota, Florida. The book he read was “The Pet Goat”, by Siegfried Engelmann and Elaine C. Bruner. Suddenly one of the security agents stepped to the president and told him the unthinkable, America was under attack. George Bush the Commander-in-Chief suddenly faced a problem he could not have dreamed of in his worst nightmares. It was ongoing terror attacks in New York and other places and President Bush himself could not be sure if he wasn't the next target, so bringing himself into a secret area was a top priority at the moment. Himself in shock too, Bush stared across the room at first and then decided to read the rest of the chapter in the book. It was meant to distract himself from his own shock, but he also wanted to stay calm for the kids even with the information he had just witnessed.
The September 11 attacks (also referred to as 9/11) were later revealed to be a series of four coordinated terrorist attacks by the Islamic terrorist group al-Qaeda on the United States on the morning of Tuesday, September 11, 2001. The attacks killed 2,996 people, injured over 6,000 others and caused at least $10 billion in infrastructure and property damage. Four passenger airliners operated by two major U.S. Passenger air carriers (United Airlines and American Airlines) — all of which departed from airports in the northeastern United States bound for California — were hijacked by 19 al-Qaeda terrorists. Two of the planes, American Airlines Flights 11 and United Airlines Flight 175, were crashed into the North and South towers, respectively, of the World Trade Center complex in New York City. Within an hour and 42 minutes, both 110-story tower collapsed, with debris and the resulting fires causing partial or complete collapse of all other buildings in the World Trade Center complex, including the 47-story 7 World Trade Center tower, as well as significant damage to ten other large surrounding structures. A third plane, American Airlines Flights 77, was crashed into the Pentagon (the headquarters of the United States Department of Defense) in Arlington County, Virginia, leading to a partial collapse of the building's western side. The fourth plane, United Airlines Flight 93, initially was steered toward Washington D.C., but crashed into a field in Stonycreek Township near Shanksville, Pennsylvania, after its passengers tried to overcome the hijackers. 9/11 was the single deadliest incident for firefighters and law enforcement officers in the history of the United States, with 343 and 72 killed respectively.
Suspicion quickly fell on al-Qaeda and Osama bin Laden, even if he denied any involvement. President George Walker Bush was taken to a secure hideout and fully briefed about everything that had happened. All his dreams of a secure, productive presidency overall were suddenly at stage with this massive terror attack. It was quickly known that bin Laden was hiding in Afghanistan, where the Taliban harbored al-Qaeda. Right now his security services told the president that there was a resistance against the Taliban and al-Qaeda, the Afghan Northern Alliance. The Afghan Northern Alliance, officially known as the United Islamic Front for the Salvation of Afghanistan, was a military front that came to formation in late 1996 after the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan (Taliban) took over Kabul. The United Front was assembled by key leaders of the Islamic State of Afghanistan, particularly president Burhanuddin Rabbani and former Defense Minister Amad Shah Massoud. Initially it included mostly Tajiks but by 2000, leaders of other ethnic groups had joined the Northern Alliance. This included Abdul Rashid Dostum, Mohammad Mohaqiq, Abdul Qadir, Asif Mohseni and others. The only problem was that the Northern Alliance only controlled up to five-percent of the country, maximal ten-percent if these areas counted, where there was a insurgence that supported them.Until then the Northern Alliance was already supported and backed by Russia, Tajikistan and Iran to a extend, mostly for local security reasons in the region, but also by Turkey, India and Uzbekistan. All these nations realized President Bush could very well be regional allies against the rule of the Taliban and al-Qaeda in Afghanistan. Since the 9/11 attacks were also a direct attack on the United States of America, it was possible to bring the NATO (North Atlantic Treaty Organization) in to support any form of military operation against these terrorists.
President Bush had to make a drastically decision, how to answer this horrible terror attacks now. Bush knew that everyone who had seen them on TV, seen how people jumped out of the burning World Trade Center and hit the ground would remember where they were on that day and what they did when they saw the footage of the attacks for the rest of their lives. But the question for George Bush was now what the best way was to strike back, to show these terrorists and their allies that America would never be beaten and would never bow to their demands. Some in the military favored a direct invasion trough neighboring countries, others were for supporting the Northern Alliance and other factions against the Taliban and al-Qaeda, with minimal direct American involvement. The American public wished for revenge for this horrible terror attack, but George Bush remembered the the Gulf War his father George H. W. bush had fought as a president against Saddam Hussein. While Kuwait was freed, the dictator retained his power and continued to destabilize the region with his ambitions for dominance and the wish to get nuclear weapons most believed. The fight against these terrorist and their supporters could take some time and had to be handled professional, both inside the USA with domestic terrorists and outside the United States as well.