13 years passed since the terrorist attack on the USA

Today marks the 13th anniversary of the largest terrorist attack on the United States of America ever, writes the BH News Agency Patria.

Nineteen people in the service of Al-Qaeda, a network of militant Islamist organizations, hijacked four American airplanes. Two struck the World Trade Center in New York, after which both were very quickly demolished. The third plane hit the Pentagon, the main headquarters of the US Department of Defense in Washington. The fourth plane crashed in a rural area of Pennsylvania 130 km east of Pittsburgh after passengers resisted the hijackers.

The attack on September 11, 2001, is an event that marked the 21st century, in terms of the general economic, social, cultural, and military consequences that followed in the United States and many other parts of the world.

At least 2,985 people were killed. Shortly after the attack, the US government announced that Al-Qaeda and Osama bin Laden were the main suspects for the attacks. Ten years later, Bin Laden was liquidated in an operation by US forces in Pakistan. In the period since Al-Qaeda's attacks on New York and Washington, more than 35,000 people have been convicted of terrorism worldwide.