ABSTRACT
On September 11, 2001, the terrorist group al Qaeda conducted coordinated attacks on the United States using commercial airliners as weapons. The terrorists crashed two airliners into the World Trade Center in New York and another into the Pentagon in Northern Virginia. A third airliner was destined for the White House, but passengers attempted to subdue the terrorists
n Jewish Defense League
n Kach
n Ku Klux Klan
n National Infrastructure Protection Plan
n Nuclear weapons
n Oklahoma Constitutional Militia
n Patriots Council
n Public education programs
n Responseprotection decisions
n Target assessment
n Terrorism
n Threat assessment
n Threat identification
n Weaponized
n WMD
who crashed the jet in a field in Pennsylvania. The attack resulted in almost 3000 casualties. The 911 attacks in 2001 were not the first attacks by al Qaeda against the United States. In 2000, al Qaeda linked terrorists attacked the USS Cole in Aden Harbor, Yemen. The attack resulted in 17 deaths, and in 1998, al Qaeda operatives detonated car bombs at the U.S. embassies in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, and Nairobi, Kenya. The attacks killed 223 people including 12 Americans.
