The 2001 Terrorist Attack on American Soil Wasn’t the Only ‘9/11’
6 min readSep 11, 2018
On the morning of September 11, 2001, four commercial airliners were hijacked by 19 members of the Salafi jihadist organization al-Qaeda. One plane was deliberately flown into the north tower of the World Trade Center complex in Manhattan, closely followed by another crashing into the south tower. About 30 minutes later, a third plane collided into the western wall of the…