On September 11, 2001, terrorists from Al Queda attacked the United States on our home soil. By targeting the World Trade Center in particular, they succeeded in causing mass terror and chaos. The people in the streets of New York “ran and fell, confused and ungainly,” from the site of the tragedy, “debris falling around them.” They stared at the horrific scene that “was not a street anymore, but a world... of falling ash and near night.” The goal of a terrorist is to cause mass confusion and chaos in order to bring attention and power to a cause. On 9-11, this group did succeed in this mission. The buildings attacked contained thousands of people from multiple nationalities and were symbols of the political and financial power of the Western world. The panic and chaos on that day did, for a moment, bring our country to our knees.
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