Attacks on 9/11/01

On September 11, 2001, this terrorist organization launched a four-prong, coordinated attack on the USA:

• Hamas
• Al Qaeda
• Tamil Tigers
• ISIS

Terrorists ____________ four planes, intending to fly them into strategic US building

• bought
• hijacked
• built

The four intended targets of the terrorist attack were chosen for their _______ representation of America's strengths (democracy and capitalism).

• literal
• symbolic

Two targets were in NYC, at the time, the largest structures in North America:

• Empire State Building/Chrysler Building
• Washington Monument/Capitol Building
• World Trade Center 1 and 2, "Twin Towers"

One plane reached its target in Washington, DC, striking the 

• White House
• Capitol
• Pentagon
• Washington Monument

A fourth plane which did not reach its intended target, crashed in __________, some people believe passengers aboard the plane played a role in its crash.

• Boston, MA
• Shanksville, PA
• Baltimore, MD
• Radford, VA

The death toll of 9/11, including hijackers, passengers, emergency responders, and victims in the buildings reached:

• 2,996
• 6,421
• 1,776
• 4,849

The mastermind of the 9/11 attacks was ________, a high level terrorist operative.  He is currently detained in Guantanamo Bay Cuba.

• Khalid Sheikh Mohammed
•  Osama bin Laden
• Ayman Al-Zawahiri
• Sayeed Almasri

In 1993, the same terrorist group in its fledgling stages, launched its first attack on US soil, attacking this same location as 9/11:

• Capitol
• Twin Towers
• Pentagon
• White House

The leader of the terrorist organization who launched the 9/11 attacks was ________, a former US ally in the early 1980s. He was killed in a Navy Seal raid on his Pakistani compound in 2011.

• Al-Zawahiri
• Abu Al-Baghdadi 
• Khalid Mohammed
• Osama bin Laden