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During my visit the 9/11 memorial, a tour guide told me that the original plans for 9/11 would've also targeted attractions across both coasts of America. Naturally, I was curious and after doing a bit of research on Khalid Sheikh Mohammed's original plans for the terror attacks, I found out that he envisioned that twelve planes would be hijacked and eleven of those planes would crash into buildings across America.
According to the September 11 Commission, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed envisioned a hijacking of twelve airplanes on both the East and West coasts, and for eleven of them to be crashed into the World Trade Center and the Empire State Building in New York City; The Pentagon in Arlington, Virginia; the Prudential Tower in Boston, Massachusetts; the White House and the United States Capitol in Washington, D.C.; the Willis Tower (then Sears Tower) in Chicago, Illinois; the U.S. Bank Tower (then Library Tower) in Los Angeles, California; the Transamerica Pyramid in San Francisco, California; and the Columbia Center in Seattle, Washington.

If I remember correctly, the last plane would land safely and Khalid Mohammed (or some other terrorist) would deliver a speech on live television calling for people to reject the west and fight for Al-Qaeda. While the grand schematics of such a plan were certainly unfeasible (there was a reason why Osama rejected it), there might be some major repercussions had Al-Qaeda attacked a larger range of targets after gaining more resources and hijackers.
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