September 11
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(also September 11th
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)- September 11, 2001, the day on which a series of major terrorist attacks took place in New York and other places in the US. The terrorists carried out the attacks using four passenger planes that they hijacked on flights from the east coast of the US. At 8.46 a.m. the first plane crashed into the north tower of the World Trade Center™ in New York. At 9.03 a.m. the second plane crashed into the south tower. Less than 90 minutes later both towers fell down. The third plane crashed into the Pentagon and the fourth into a field in Pennsylvania. Nearly 3 000 people died in the attacks, a greater number than were killed in the attack on Pearl Harbor in the Second World War. The attacks were seen as the work of Al Qaeda, a terrorist organization led by Osama Bin Laden. They resulted in strong anti-terrorist laws being passed in many countries and a US-led war in Afghanistan, where Osama Bin Laden was thought to be hiding. In 2011 he was found in Pakistan and killed.
9月11日：2001年9月11日，当天在纽约和美国其他地方发生了一系列重大恐怖袭击。恐怖分子使用从美国东海岸劫持的四架客机进行袭击。上午8.46，第一架飞机坠入纽约世界贸易中心TM的北塔。上午9.03，第二架飞机坠入南塔。不到90分钟后，两座塔楼都倒下了。第三架飞机撞上五角大楼，第四架撞到宾夕法尼亚州的一个野外。在这次袭击中有近3000人死亡，这一数字比第二次世界大战对珍珠港袭击中的死亡人数还要多。这些袭击被视为是由本萨登（Osama Bin Laden）领导的恐怖组织基地组织（Al Qaeda）的工作。它们导致许多国家通过了强有力的反恐法律，并导致了美国主导的阿富汗战争，而本拉登被认为藏匿在阿富汗。2011年，他在巴基斯坦被发现并被杀害。