INDEPTH: SEPTEMBER 11
Remembering September 11
CBC News Online | Updated Jan. 30, 2004
On the morning of September 11, 2001, four U.S. airliners became guided missiles when they were hijacked and unleashed on U.S. targets, killing more than 3,000 unsuspecting people. Two of the planes were crashed into the twin towers of the World Trade Center in New York, sending the 110-storey landmarks crashing to the ground. A third plane was steered into the west wing of the Pentagon in Washington and a fourth crashed 120 km southeast of Pittsburgh, Penn.
The attacks shook the western world to the core.
They also touched off a U.S.-led war on terror that saw an international coalition of military forces travel to Afghanistan to strike the attackers at their source.
On the home front, meanwhile, borders have been tightened and internal security bolstered as America comes to terms with a new sense of vulnerability.
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