9 facts behind the 11 September, Al-Qaeda attacks against the United States

Asianadesun,Ten years after Al-Qaeda to attack the WTC towers (World Trade Center) and the pentagon USA using commercial aircraft in the plow still leaves a bitter experience and a splashy news in this modern century, (the fourth plane, which should be directed to the U.S. House of Parliament or the White House, crashed in a field in rural Pennsylvania, killing all passengers inside it).
there are approximately 3,000 victims of the terrible events of that and there is some truth behind it that may be unknown.

1. Twenty people survived through the rubble of buildings

Studies of the survivors of the WTC say, 20 people were put out alive from under the rubble of buildings. Among the survivors was John McLoughlin and William Jimeno, two police officers harbor. They were rescued after buried beneath the debris for 13-21 hours. They become characters in the 2006 film Oliver Stone's "World Trade Center".

Pasquale Buzzelli, an engineer from the port manager, and Genelle Guzman, a secretary, was on the 64th floor of the North Tower when the building was hit by a plane. Buzzelli unconscious for three hours, and awoke on a pile of rubble, facing the sky. His legs were broken, many injuries and a concussion when saved by rescuers. Guzman inside the rubble will be rescued 27 hours after the towers collapsed. His legs were badly injured but the crushed wreckage recovered four months later.

2. The death toll second largest British nationality

Not only Americans who are victims of the attacks on WTC and Pentagon. More than 80 countries who lost at least one of its citizens on the fateful day, including Japan, Ireland, England, Australia, New Zealand, Switzerland, India, Mexico, Brazil, South Africa and Canada. Among the 372 foreign citizens were killed, 67 of them British nationality.

3. Ron DiFrancesco managed to escape from the WTC South Tower collapses at

DiFrancesco (37), a Canadian citizen, made it out of the WTC South Tower when the second plane hit between floors 77 and 85. After struggling down to the ground floor, DiFrancesco managed to leave the building and then decimate it.

Due to exposure to flames, DiFrancesco woke up in hospital with burns all over his body and vertebral fractures. He is one of only four people who managed to escape alive from the South Tower.

4. The fire lasted for 99 days

It took 99 days to deal with the blaze at Ground Zero until extinguished completely. On September 11 at 8:46 am local time, the first plane hit the North Tower began to fire. The new blaze completely extinguished on December 19, 2001.

5. There is also the third building to collapse

WTC Tower 7, a 47-story building and one of the largest buildings in central Manhattan, became the third building that collapsed. No media proclaimed it as the building collapsed due to the domino effect of the collapse of the Twin Towers. Not collapse because the plane was hit.

In a report 9 / 11 Commission stated: "The third skyscraper that collapsed on September 11 was reported only as a trivial footnote ... because almost no one saw the collapse of Tower 7 ... The news of the collapse of Tower 7 can not be found in newspapers, magazines , or any electronic media after 11 September. "

6. A coded message posted online
Abu Abdul Rahman, one of the plotters behind the September 11, sending a love letter containing a password via the Internet to the "girlfriend" a week before the attack. Apparently he was a colleague of one of the responsible person: Ramzi Binalshibh.

The message reads: "The first semester starts in three weeks. Two high school (Twin Towers) and two universities (targets in Washington DC) ... This summer will surely heat ... 19 (the number of hijackers) certificates for four private educational institutions and four exams (the number of aircraft used). Regards to the professor. Good-bye. "

CNN reported that three weeks before September 11, 2001, four teams assigned to the targets of attacks, with three of them were given a passcode. U.S. House of Parliament called the "Faculty of Law," the Pentagon to "Faculty of Fine Arts", and the North Tower of the WTC were coded password "Faculty of City Planning".

7. A company lost two-thirds of employees

Global financial services company Cantor Fitzgerald may be the entity that gets the worst effects of the attack 9 / 11. Corporate headquarters are located on floors 101 to 105 in one of the WTC Towers 960 people lost 658 of its employees, or two-thirds of total employees.

After the tragedy occurred, Managing Director of Howard Lutnick contacting colleagues and said: "We could have closed the company and came to the funeral of our colleagues, or we work harder to help the families left behind." And that's what they do. Ten years later, Cantor Fitzgerald gave more than $ 180 million to the families of employees who were killed.

8. The ruins of WTC steel sold

Will do with the rest of the pile as much as 185,101 tons of steel at Ground Zero? U.S. authorities recycle it. The public was angry because the authorities get rid of the steel-steel before it actually finished examined as evidence. Mayor Bloomberg responded by saying: "If you are interested to see construction methods and design, today's computers can do. Seeing the pile of junk iron will not give you any information. "

Based on the site "9 / 11 Research", steel-largest steel has been sent to China and India. Chinese company Baosteel purchased 50,000 tons at a price of $ 120 per ton. The remaining steel is used as a monument material distributed in all 50 states.

9. Single engine aircraft "saved" from the accident

To investigate the attack, the engineers volunteered to investigate the structure of the WTC buildings. According to the Federal Disaster Management Agency (FEMA), a machine one of the planes crashing into the Twin Towers surprisingly does not damage from a blow, explosion and collapse of the towers.