World Trade Center - The Terrorattack from 09.11.2001

The Terrorattack from September 11th. 2001

"There is no faith in God, to which one can appoint oneself as the justification of such crimes"
Bishop Wolfgang Huber, Berlin

Pictures of a cowardly and inhuman crimes, planned and implemented of Fanatics, which abuse their religion in addition, which have entire progressive and civilized world their personal hate war!. We may not ourselves however from a handful of religious Extremists into a Third World War terrorized. Therefore it is at the time to concern together against such terror - consistently and hard, but nevertheless deliberated and fairly! If we succeed, a large coalition from all countries of the earth, which abhor such terror, to create, then we have a real chance to make for the terrorism from. Contain also military activities! For our all security and future. In the determination and the community is our strength!
When 1961 blocked the former GDR the border to west Berlin and began to build the wall, the American President John F. Kennedy came to Berlin and brought an great gesture of the solidarity with him, in which he spoke the words, "Ich bin ein Berliner"! Now it is time, this gesture of the solidarity to give back! We say: Our sympathy applies to the Victims of New York, Washington and Pittsburgh!

"For my eyes broke down a part of our floor. I created it, by the stairway to comming out. Few minutes later collapsed everything"
Bernard La Borie

"Building parts flew by air, glass fragment, everywhere were paper. And I at one time saw the chassis of an airplane on the road hit"
Mario Colantonio

"A man and a woman jumped together hand in hand out of the flames into the depth. A cruel picture"
James

"Humans stood for queue, in order to donate blood. Everyone helped. Such a co-operation I did not experience in this city ever"
Eddie Campbell, Medical

"I saw the enormous dust cloud. Thousands ran crying Broadway up. Women tore themselves the shoes of the feet, so that they run more quickly could"
Thomas Girst

"With my escape from that 82. Stick sat humans on the stairs. I wanted to help them, but they could not be touched. The skin had melted away them under the clothes"
Donald Burns, work in the wtc

"They through-said, we are safe. We are to remain, where we are. But I made myself with one hundred people on the way. With my Girlfriend opposite I saw throw the window the Collaps of the center"
Mike Drabick, running out of the 103. floor

"We came, in order to save hurt humans, and became suddenly even helpless victims"
Jackson Bernard, Rescue aids

Fotos by New York City Office of Emergency Management/Getty Images/dpa

The morning of the 11. September 2001 was as from the picture book: low-blue sky, a morning like from a paradise, almost innocently. However in these morning hours their life lost over 3.000 humans.
8:46 o'clock, World Trade Center New York City: The Boeing 767 the American airlines, kidnapped by terrorists, flight 011, races with a speed of 782 km/h on height 96. Floor into the north tower of the 410 meters high World Trade Center. In the case of the impact the fuel, a fire ball explodes shoots from the building. Wreck parts of the airplane and rubble of the building fall to soil, kill passerbys. The tower varies like never before. By the building a shock wave pulls by all this in the inside is around hurled. Humans fall to soil, hit like projectiles against the walls, or glowing within seconds in the enormous heat of the conflagration.
9:02 o'clock, World Trade Center New York City: The Boeing 767 the United airlines, kidnapped by terrorists, flight 175, hunts with 943 km/h between 78. and 84. Floor into the south tower of the skyscraper. The airplane is in steep curve situation. Also the south tower varies like never before. A shock wave pulls also here by the building and hurls humans and material around. The damage to the construction of the building is here still more devastating. However one of the stairways remains intact, so that humans shocked by panic have a certain chance to save itself. Who cannot bring itself however in time in security, by within seconds the spreading flames seizes themselves.
The south tower collapses at 10:05 o'clock in itself, the northern at 10:28 o'clock. With these gigantic forces everything will grind to dust: Concrete, steel, glass - and humans.
At 9:45 o'clock American airline flight 077 falls the nerve center of largest military power into the enormous Pentagon. Then, at 10:03 o'clock, falls the United airlines 093 with Shanksville into reduces from Pittsburgh - Pennsylvania and explodes. Where the kidnappers this machine to originally steer wanted are today unsettled until. A hand fully passengers, by means of Handys about the attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon informed, decided to the attack on the four Hijacker.
The authors are quickly constituted: young Arab men, the Islamic faith pending. Student partly, strictly glaeubig, in the west living. When wire-pullers, the Islam list
leader Osama are shop constituted supervisor and backer in the background, which had once helped to sell the Soviet troops from Afghanistan.

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Already in August a flight instructor warned the American FBI that terrorists could use an airliner as weapon. The man called, said the FBI several times the congressional representative James upper star after a report the " New York Times ". The caller was Instrukteur of a pilot school in the Federal State Minnesota, which was visited by that 33 years old Zacarias Moussaoui. The French citizen of Moroccan origin accused of to have been involved in the notices. The flight instructor, a former military pilot, drew suspicion, because Moussaoui remarkably strongly for flies of a Boeing 747 interested and avoiding to questions about its personal background reacted. It was arrested because of offence against the einwanderungsgesetze, but nobody went to before the September 11th the terrorist suspicion after.

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