Attentats de 2001

Thème en anglais  LES ATTENTATS DE 2001 en anglais

I’m going to talk about the notion ( les attentats  de 2001 )

The attacks of September 11, 2001 are four committed suicide the same day to the United States, in less than two hours, between 8:14 and 10:3 by members of the network Al-Qaeda jihadist, for symbolic buildings in the northeast of the country and making 2 977 dead.

Dead: 2 977

victims and 19 terrorists,

 Guilty: Al Qaeda Date: September 11, 2001

Type: Suicide bombing, hijacking, terrorism, mass murder

Wounded: 6 291 

 Locations: Manhattan, County of Arlington Stonycreek Townshi

September 11, 2001, four suicide bombings hit American soil, forth symbolic buildings such as the twin towers of the World Trade Center in New York (two planes hit the towers) and the Pentagon in Washington.

Only one of the flights will not reach its target the two towers that reach to about 415 m of height - are each pierced by a hijacked plane. From the windows of the towers, some employees make desperate signs, others choose to commit suicide. Within two hours, the towers collapse.

110 Floors to fit each other, causing the death of many employees working in these buildings, but also causing the fall

Two other buildings nearby, weakened by the collapse of the Twin Towers. In total, more than 30,000 thirty thousand people are trapped in the concrete. Two other buildings nearby,

The attacks of September 11, 2001 are the deadliest attacks since the beginning of the story: on the 2  2 763 people

People who have lost their lives in the twin towers or near them (including 10 ten terrorists), only 293 were found.

In October 2012, in the review of two worlds, Alain Frachon and Daniel Vernet explain that, in 2003, "the world still lived. under the shock of the attacks perpetrated on 11 September 2001 in New York and Washington by al-Qaida, [Europe] is therefore very marked by the terrorist threat and ways  to cope without falling in the spirit of crusade then represented by George W. Bush. ». This last spear indeed, after the attacks, a "war against terrorism", attacking the 'rogue States', i.e. the country where the plans appear to favor Al-Qaeda

This war will be fought mainly in Afghanistan (from October 2001), country suspected to host Ben Laden, and Iraq, in March 2003.

The World Trade Center, a showcase of American economic power to conclude

The attacks of September 11 profoundly and permanently changed the political situation in the world as well as in relationships.

2. The number of attacks is growing between 2000 and 2014, there was 61 000 terrorist attacks which have killed 140 000. In addition these attacks are more civilians in indiscriminate way, says Charles-Philippe David.

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