Abstract
The purpose of this paper is the complete analyses of the September 11 attacks. Initially the paper is written to analyze the factors that led to the September 11 attacks where we see that mostly the US officials were informed and prepared for this attack as with their alliance with the organization Al-Qaeda and then the paper focuses on the effects on the Americans of these attacks and the creation of the various departments and Acts.
September 11 Attacks
On September 11, 2001, the United States suffered a large-scale terrorist attack on its home soil. Clearly, one of the most critical questions of the twenty-first century concerns why the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001 were not prevented.
The Congressional report released on July 25, 2003 by a joint panel of House and Senate intelligence committees concluded that 9/11 resulted in C.I.A. and F.B.I. lapses. While incompetence is frightening enough given a $40 billion budget, it is simply not consistent with known facts.
The magnitude of the crisis is readily apparent by noting that 9/11 serves as a pretext for a never-ending war against the world, including preemptive strikes against defenseless, but resource rich countries. It also serves as a pretext for draconian measures of repression at home, including the cabinet level Department of Homeland Security and Patriot Act I, and its sequel.
On the morning of September 11, 2001 four Boeing passenger jets were hijacked within an hour by nineteen Arab terrorists armed with boxcutters. Pilots among these terrorists took control of the commercial planes and changed course toward targets in New York City and Washington D.C. Two of the planes were deliberately crashed into the Twin Towers, causing fires within the towers, which melted the steel support structures, thereby causing the buildings to collapse completely.............
