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Al-Qaeda gunmen stormed building complexes inhabited by Western expatriates, killing 39 people and wounding over 160. [21] The 2003 Casablanca bombings occurred on May 16, 2003, in Casablanca, Morocco. 45 people were killed as a result of these attacks (12 suicide-bombers and 33 victims). The 2003 Marriott Hotel bombing occurred on August 5 ...
Research suggests that al-Qaeda was formed on August 11, 1988, when a meeting in Afghanistan between leaders of Egyptian Islamic Jihad, Abdullah Azzam, and bin Laden took place. [17] The network was founded in 1988 [18] by Osama bin Laden, Abdullah Azzam, [19] and other Arab volunteers during the Soviet–Afghan War. [2]
It was the deadliest foreign attack on American soil since the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941, and to this day remains the deadliest terrorist attack in human history. The attacks were conducted by al-Qaeda, acting in accord with the 1998 fatwa issued against the US and its allies by persons under the command of bin Laden ...
The September 11 (or 9/11) Islamic terrorist group al-Qaeda attacks on New York City, September 11, 2001. Two of the planes, were crashed into the North and South towers, of the World Trade Center ...
Khalid al-Mihdhar and Nawaf al-Hazmi were both experienced and respected jihadists in the eyes of al-Qaeda's leader Osama bin Laden.. As for the pilots who would go on to participate in the attacks, three of them were original members of the Hamburg cell (Mohamed Atta, Marwan al-Shehhi and Ziad Jarrah).
The 9/11 attacks have been referred to as a "global symbolic event". [1] The September 11 attacks were carried out by 19 hijackers of the Islamist militant organization al-Qaeda. In the 1990s, al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden declared a militant jihad against the United States, and issued two fatawa in 1996 and 1998. [2]
On the morning of 11 September 2001, al-Qaeda carried out four coordinated attacks on the United States, employing four hijacked jet airliners. [60] The attacks killed almost 3,000 people and injured more than 6,000 others. [60] By the early afternoon of 11 September, the CIA had confirmed that al-Qaeda was responsible for the attack. [61]
This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 12 September 2024. Assessment that al Qaeda attacked the US This article is about the people behind the attacks organizationally. For the 19 men who physically carried out the attacks, see Hijackers in the September 11 attacks. This article uses citations that link to broken or outdated sources. Please ...