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Undergraduate 2
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Dare es Salaam
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terrorists bombed the U.S. embassy, AL qaeda most coordinated attack. in Tanzania. khobar Towers
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Nairobi
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2nd Embassy bombing by Al Qaeda located in Kenya. truck bomb
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Aden
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a small boat filled with explosives blew up alongside the USS Cole located in Yemen, Aden
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Hamburg
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Located in Germany, Mosque "Al Quoods" & Mohammed Atta also stayed their joining the mosque.
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Egypt
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Mohamed Atta was from
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United Arab Emirates
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Marwan al-Shehhi, Fayez Banihammad,
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Lebanon
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Ziad Jarrah, united airlines flight 93
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Saudi Arabia
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Most of the terrorist were from there.
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Khalid Shaik Mohammed
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Yousef uncle, masterming or engineering of all the WTC attacks.
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Ramzi Bin al-Shieb
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from Yemen supposed to be the 20th hijacker, but he was denied admittance to the U.S.
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Abdul Murrad
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put the idea in Yousef to do WTC instead of CIA office.
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Operation Yellow Ribbon
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re-routed incoming international flights to airports in Canada on Sept. 11.
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Mohamed Atta
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"the leader of the 911 attacks & hijackers"
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Ziad Jarrah
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Hijacker pilot from Lebanon, who cashed Flight 93 into the Pennsylvania countryside to prevent assault from passengers.
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Marwan al-Shehhi
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Flight 175 pilot who crashed into the south tower, from United Arab Emirates.
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Hani Hanjour
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pilot of flight 77 into the Pentagon, from Saudi Arabia
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Zacarias Moussaoui
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FLight 93" Replaced Ramzi Bin Al-Sheib, took flight lessons in Oklahoma, FBI took him into to custody because he acted suspect; said "I don't want to learn how to land planes" He was supposed to be the 20th killed Hijacker.
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Newark, NJ (Liberty International Airport)
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United Airlines Flight 93 departed from Newark, New Jersey, for San Francisco, California on the morning of September 11, 2001. After being hijacked by four al Qaeda terrorists, the plane crashed in rural southwest Pennsylvania
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Boston, Ma (Logan international Airport)
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to los Angeles Airport, flight 11 north tower mohamed atta
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Washington, D.C. (Dulles Airport)
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American Airlines Flight 77, to Los Angeles International Airport was hijacked by five Islamic terrorists crashed into the Pentagon
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Los Angeles, Ca (LAX)
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flight 77 & 11 was supposed to land here
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Mogadishu, Somalia
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Black Hawk Down
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Ted& Barbara Olsen
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She was a passenger on American Airlines Flight 77 & news commentator,highest official lawyer
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Mohammed Farrah Adid
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big warlord in Mogadishu supported by bin laden
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Operation Gothic Serpent
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remove Mohamed Farrah Adid out of Mogadishu, also know as operation Black Sea.
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Operation Restore Hope
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when the military sent to be a relief effort by George Bush senior, it turned bloody,
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Jeremy Glick &Tod Beamer & Mark Bingham
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United 93 passengers that led the revolt.
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Tom Ridge
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First director of homeland security
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Micheal Chertoff
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2nd director of homeland security
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Janet Napolitano
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Obama appointed her as the current director of homeland security.
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Ahamad Massoud
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security in charge of the northern alliance to run the Taliban out of Afghanistan, but they assassinated him with a video camera.
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Hamid Karzai
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president of Afganistan
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Ayman al-Zawahiri
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Second man of AL-qaeda
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Extraordinary Rendition
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transfer of a person from one state to another, to torture for information.
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Mullah Omar
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wanted by U.S. authorities for harboring Osama bin Laden
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Taliban
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operated training camps for terrorists in Afghanistan…this is where the 9-11 hijackers were trained
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Northern Alliance
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NORTHERN ALLIANCE
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is a coalition of ethnic groups in Afghanistan including Tajiks, Uzbeks, Shiite Muslims, and others, formed after being defeated by the Taliban, who became Afghanistan's ruling party. want a democratic gov't
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FDNY
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Loses 341
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NYPD
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23
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PAPD
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37
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NEADS
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designed to protect the U.S. from Russia and trained to fly east, over Atlantic ocean . during Sept. 11th they flew the wrong way.
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ATC ZErO
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clear, visibility unlimited
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Fatwa
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A legal opinion or ruling issued by an Islamic scholar, or binding edict in Shi'a Islam
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Guantanamo Bay
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Camp x-ray & Camp Delta
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Florence, Co
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Admax Prison. Zacarias Moussaoui & Ramzi Yousef & Khalid Sheik Muhamed.
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# of hijackers killed during Sept. 11th
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19 were killed, Zacarias Moussaoui was supposed to be the 20th one.
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Tod Beamer
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coined expresion "lets roll"
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SFO Sanfrancisco
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destination for one of the 9-11 flights 93
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Mullah Omar
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leader of the Taliban in Afghanistan prior to and after the 9-11 attacks
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Mullah Omar
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leader of the Taliban in Afghanistan prior to and after the 9-11 attacks
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Afghanistan
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fought and beat the Soviet Army and gave rise to Bin Laden and Al Qaeda and taliban
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