Photos: A World Changed By September 11
BET.com takes a look at events changed by the attacks.
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Never the Same - September 11. It’s a date that has the power to remind us of where we were when we first heard the U.S. had been attacked, and it’s a date that reminds us of how a country can come together to help one another in its time of need. Though the terrorist attacks on September 11 were almost instantaneous, the events and policies stemming from that day ten years ago have been ongoing.On the following pages, BET.com takes a look back at a world that was forever changed by the September 11 terror attacks. (Photo: Mario Tama/Getty Images)
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Sept. 11, 2001: The First Hit - At 8:46a.m. American Airlines Flight 11, scheduled to fly from Boston, Massachusetts to Los Angeles, California, is hijacked by five al-Qaeda terrorists and crashes into the North Tower (1 WTC) of the World Trade Center, killing all 92 people on board, including the hijackers. (Photo: Spencer Platt/Getty Images)
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The Second Hit - 9:02 a.m. United Airlines Flight 175, flying from Boston, Massachusetts to Los Angeles, California, crashes into the south tower of the World Trade Center, killing all 62 people aboard, including the hijackers.(AP Photo/Richard Drew)
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The Third Hit - 9:37 a.m. American Airlines Flight 77, scheduled to fly from Dulles, Virginia to Los Angeles, California, crashes into the western side of the Pentagon, causing a violent fire and killing all 64 people on board. (Photo: Alex Wong/Getty Images)
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The First Collapse - 9:59 a.m. The South Tower of the World Trade Center begins to collapse.(Photo: Jeff Christensen / Reuters)
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The Fourth Hit - 10:03 a.m. United Airlines Flight 93, scheduled to travel from Newark, New Jersey to San Francisco, California, crashes into a field in Stonycreek Township, Pennsylvania. All 44 people on board are killed. The plane is believed to have been headed toward the White House or the Capitol. (Photo: REUTERS/Jason Cohn)
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The Second Collapse - 10:28 The North Tower of the World Trade Center begins to collapse. (Photo: Ray Stubblebine / Reuters)
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The Rescue - Shortly after the attacks, survivors leave the World Trade Center, but for those who don’t have the ability to leave quickly, firefighters begin their arduous search through the rubble. (Photo: Shannon Stapleton / Reuters)
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September 20: America Prepares for War - In a televised address to a joint session of congress, President Bush announces that a "war on terror" begins. The War on Terror became an international military campaign led by the United States and the United Kingdom with the mission to eliminate al-Qaeda. In the same address Bush urges that congress prepare Americans for war and that Osama Bin Laden be turned over by Afghanistan’s Taliban rulers to U.S. authorities. The Taliban, known as an Islamist militia and terrorist group who ruled much of Afghanistan, have been reported to have harbored the al-Qaeda network responsible for 9/11.(Photo:REUTERS/White House/Eric Draper)
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October: Troops Enter Afghanistan - U.S. Forces enter Afghanistan with the mission to eliminate al-Qaeda.(Photo: REUTERS/Vasily Fedosenko/files)
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November: The TSA is Created - Through the Aviation and Transportation Security Act, signed into law by President George Bush on November 19, 2001, the Transportation Security Administration is created to "protect the nation's transportation systems."(Photo: Tom Pennington/Getty Images)
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December: The Taliban Falls - Hamid Karzai is named the head of the interim Afghan administration as Mullah Mohammad Omar and his forces flee Kandahar, Afghanistan. (Photo: Getty Images)
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April 2002: The Rebuilding of a Nation - President Bush calls for the U.S. and other international communities to, finally, support and finance the reconstruction of Afghanistan. (Photo: Darren McCollester/Getty Images)
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November: Dept. of Homeland Security Created - In November, through the Homeland Security Act, the Department of Homeland Security is created. It encompasses 22 agencies, including customs, FEMA, the coast guard, and the secret service. (Photo: REUTERS/Jason Reed)
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November: 9/11 Commission Created - The 9/11 Commission also known as the National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States, is formed to prepare a "full and complete account of the circumstances surrounding the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, including preparedness for and the immediate response to the attacks." The commission is also mandated to provide recommendations designed to guard against future attacks.After the attacks, the commission releases a final report, concluding that major flaws in U.S. security systems permitted the terrorist attacks to occur. The commission is created by congressional legislation and signed into law by President Bush. Before the commission dismantles years later in 2004, they create the 9/11 Public Discourse Project, a public education campaign focused on making America more aware of potential dangers.(Photo: Gett...
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December: Guantanamo Bay, Cuba - The Guantanamo Bay detention camp is established in 2002 by the Bush Administration to hold detainees from the "war on terror." It is used as a detainment and interrogation facility by the United States.(Photo: Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)
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March 2003: U.S. and Iraq - Less than two years after invading Afghanistan, President Bush delivers a televised address, saying that the U.S. would invade Iraq in order to disarm the country of "weapons of mass destruction" and remove its leader, Saddam Hussein, from power. Critics say that the invasion of Iraq will divert attention and resources from rebuilding Afghanistan.(Photo: Joe Raedle/Getty Images)
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April: No WMDs Found - In the month after Baghdad falls to U.S. forces it is discovered that no weapons of mass destruction have been found in Iraq. Saddam Hussein goes into hiding and is captured in a farmhouse near Tikrit, Iraq, in December. He is later convicted and hanged in 2006.(Photo: Marco Di Lauro/Getty Images)
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August: NATO Takes Charge - For the first time in its history, NATO accepts a military mission outside of Europe, taking command of security forces in Afghanistan. (Photo: Haraz N. Ghanbari-Pool/Getty Images)
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April 2004: Torture at Abu Ghraib - Through several news reports, including graphic photos that appear in The New Yorker Magazine and on 60 Minutes, the public is first made aware of the physical, psychological and sexual abuse and torture of prisoners perpetrated by members of the U.S. military at Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq. Between May 2004 and March 2006, eleven soldiers are convicted in courts martial, dishonorably discharged and sentenced to military prison. (Photo: Rusty Russell/Getty Images)
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October: A Movie that Changes The World - American filmmaker Michael Moore takes a critical look at President Bush and the "War on Terror" in a controversial feature film that becomes the highest-grossing documentary of all time: Fahrenheit 9/11.(Photo: Peter Kramer/Getty Images)
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September 2006: Terrorism Makes a Resurgence - On September 20, 2006, Afghanistan President Karzai addresses the United Nations, saying that terrorism is "rebounding in his country."(Photo: Win McNamee/Getty Images)
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May 2007: Taliban Leader Killed - Mullah Dadullah, a senior Taliban military commander is killed by U.S. NATO and Afghan forces. Dadullah was named the Minister of Construction of the Taliban regime. (Photo: Marco Di Lauro/Getty Images)
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July 2008: Obama Speaks - On July 15, 2008 presidential candidate Barack Obama says, "As president, I will make the fight against al-Qaeda and the Taliban the top priority that it should be" in a foreign policy address at the International Trade Center in Washington, D.C.(Photo: Alex Wong/Getty Images)
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September: Memorial Opens in Washington - On September 11, 2008, a memorial consisting of 184 benches, each with a plaque bearing the name of a victim killed in the American Airlines crash of flight 77an Airlines crash of flight 77, opens.(Photo: REUTERS/Jason Reed)
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February 2009: More Troops Deployed - Shortly after being inaugurated as the 44th president of the United States, Obama announces that he plans to send 17,000 more U.S. troops to Afghanistan. (Photo: Logan Mock-Bunting/Getty Images)
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September: A Call from The Military - The top U.S. commander, General Stanley McChrystal, submits an assessment stating that an additional 40,000 troops are needed in Afghanistan. In December, Obama announces that he would send 30,000 more troops. He also says that forces would begin withdrawing in July 2011. (Photo: Logan Mock-Bunting/Getty Images)
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September 2010: No Mosque Near Ground Zero - Controversy arises when protestors debate over whether building an Islamic cultural center two blocks from the former site of the World Trade Center.is appropriate. The debate gets so intense that a Florida pastor with a history of fiery rhetoric announces that he will burn a Koran in protest of the plan, but then later rescinds. The plan is eventually suspended and the Mosque is not built near Ground Zero. (Photo: Spencer Platt/Getty Images)
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April 2011: WikiLeaks and Guantanamo Bay Prisoners - WikiLeaks begins publishing over 700 secret files relating to prisoners’ conditions in the Guantanamo Bay detention camp. Some of the files reveal that over 100 Afghans and Pakistanis, including chefs and farmers, have been held there for years without charge.(Photo: Petty Officer 1st class Shane T. McCoy/U.S. Navy/Getty Images)
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May: Osama Bin Laden Killed - On May 1, Osama Bin Laden is shot at a compound in Abbottabad, Pakistan by a U.S. Navy Seal Team. News of his death is cause for celebration for many in the U.S. and across the globe. Days later, Obama travels to Ground Zero to lay a wreath and meet with family members of 9/11 victims. (Photo: Mario Tama/Getty Images)
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August 2011: Record Military Deaths - August is the deadliest month for U.S. troops in nearly 10 years in the war on terror.(Photo Scott Olson/Getty Images)
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