Two decades on, the story of 9/11 will shock you anew
Daily MailMore than eight years before the terrible events of 9/11, in February 1993, a 1,500lb bomb exploded underneath New York’s Twin Towers. In 1996, from his base in Taliban-controlled Afghanistan, Al Qaeda founder Osama Bin Laden and his right-hand man, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, began planning ‘the Planes Operation’ Pictured: Taliban fighters on top of a Humvee parade along a road in Kandahar on September 1, 2021, after the US pulled its troops out of Afghanistan Tuesday, Sept 11, 2001 4am: American Airlines Flight attendant Amy Sweeney is getting ready to go to work with a heavy heart. As the CIA boss George Tenet said later: ‘The system was blinking red.’ Pictured: Explosions rock the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001, after the towers were hit by two planes 6.50am: Nearby, United Airlines representative Gail Jawahir is repeating the standard security questions about luggage to two nervous UAE nationals, as they are having trouble understanding her. 9.15am: On Floor 78 of the South Tower, a wing of United Flight 175 has caused carnage to a large ‘sky lobby’ that links the upper and lower elevators. She liked to go running with her pet goat...’ Pictured: Shocked crowds of people stare up in horror at the World Trade Center which is burning after two planes hit the twin towers 9.10am: Equity trader Stephen Mulderry has made it to the roof of the South Tower but the door is locked.
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