The attacks of 11 September 2001

MurielB Lun 11 Sep - 22:22

wiki a écrit:The attacks of 11 September 2001 (commonly known as 9/11) were four Islamist suicide bombings carried out on the same day in the United States, killing 2,977 people in Manhattan, New York, Arlington, Virginia and Shanksville, Pennsylvania, in less than two hours, between 8.14am and 10.03am. They were carried out by members of the al-Qaeda jihadist network, two days after the organisation's suicide attack killing the anti-Taliban commander and former Defence Minister Ahmed Shah Massoud in Afghanistan. They targeted symbolic buildings in the north-east of the United States, including the World Trade Center, which had already been attacked in 1993. Operation Bojinka, uncovered in January 1995, is regarded by US intelligence services as a precursor to these attacks.

Anyway according to "Le monde diplomatique"twelve years after the attacks on the World Trade Center, it is the relative decline of the United States, now faced with the rise of China, India, Brazil, South Africa, etc., that characterises the global situation. In the end, September 11 was just a stage in the process.