Knowing All About it

On March 23, Condoleezza Rice was told that Bin Ladin was planning to attack the U.S. and he might use a truck bomb. People started getting alert when there was a repoert that Al Qaeda might be using aircrafts to attack the cities of London, Boston, and New York. Three months later, the government and agencies discovered that Al Qaeda is located in different parts of the Middle East and maybe they could be in Rome too. Agencies discovered that attack are imminent because there are people concentrated on the borders of the country. Bin Ladin and Al Qaeda told to the U.S. that they are planning a massive attack and they will follow the plan in short time.

"Clarke warned National Security Advisor Condoleezza Rice that domestic or foreign terrorists might use a truck bomb-their "weapon of choice"-on Pennsylvania Avenue." Rice was adviced that Al Qaeda will use a truck bomb and they actually used it, but in the World Trade Center instead of Pennsylvania Avenue.
"In early May, a walk-in to the FBI claimed there was a plan to launch attacks on London, Boston, and New York." They got information of the places that would be attacked and now, they knew barely what Al Qaeda meant to do.

Agencies and investigators got a lot of good information about the attacks that were being planned by the extremists. They knew the places that might be attacked and were these people were concentrated. These information was reliable and through spying, they got it from good sources and also from the actual extremist plans. If the U.S. knew almost everything, Why didn´t they stopped the attacks or improved security in important placessuch as airports?

FBI is Unprepared

In 9/11, in addition of the airplanes, they had a truck with bombs that a man put in the underground garage to blow up the building after crashing the planes. FBI, had arrested people from the Middle East that were entering to the U.S., but also other members of Al-Qaeda could enter to the country. FBI did a good job in arresting people that were going to cause damage in the country at the JFK Airport. Also, some people accessed so there were failures in FBI spying system too. There were a lot of errors and one of them was the poor training of the analysts and spyers because they didn´t have too much experience in counterterrorism and also they couldn´t speak foreign languages like the ones they speak in the Middle East.

"This was not a suicide attack. The terrorists parked a truck bomb with a timing device on Level B-2 of the underground garage, then departed." Terrorist attack was planned very well and they had some alternatives in case of something failing or going wrong.
"Ramzi Yousef, the Sunni extremist who planted the bomb, said later that he had hoped to kill 250,000 people." This person planted the bomb expecting to kill thousands of people, but fortunately only 6 people died in the attack of the bomb.

These extremists´ objective is to kill a lot of people in New York and to destroy the World Trade Center also. Their plans to reach the goal are inhuman and here we can understand that they will do whatever it takes to kill people and do whatever they want. On the other hand, FBI had to be prepared to deal with any attack from other people, but in these case, they were certainly unprepared. Some FBI errors and bad intentions from these extremists lead to one of the most terrible catastrophes in the history of the United States.

Airplanes are hijacked

In September 11th, 2001, nineteen terrorists were aboarding the flights: American 11, United 175, American 77, and United 93. The different terrorists passed through the security checkpoints and boarded the airplane. These flights departed from Boston, Newark, and Washington D.C. in between 7:30 and 9:00 am. After final contact with the towers, the planes were hijacked by this group. Two airplanes collided with the World Trade Center, one with the Pentagon, and another in an abandoned field in Pennsylvania after a battle between the bad guys and the passengers.

"At Dulles International Airport in the Virginia suburbs of Washington, D.C., five more men were preparing to take their early morning flight." Five terrorists were going to an airplane in Washington D.C. and this plane will be the one that will end colliding near the White House inside of the Pentagon.
"At 8:46:40, American 11 crashed into the North Tower of the World Trade Center in New York City." This is the first hijacked plane and one of the two that crashed the World Trade Center.

There was suspect about these terrorists getting into the airplanes, but they were allowed to go becaused they passed through the checks. Once they were in the air, there was nothing that people could do, only wait to see what happens. Some brave passengers almost controlled the United 93 flight, but the bad guys crashed it before people rescuing it. This was a massive attack that will always be remembered by the whole world, but especially by the Americans.