Tuesday morning, September 11, 2001…
Twin Towers of World Trade Center, Manhattan, destroyed…
…by Radical Islamic terrorist suicide–hijackers turning U.S. passenger planes into guided–missiles… Pentagon perimeter hit (3 of 5 Pentagon building rings penetrated …E, D, C rings take the hit… Passengers on 4th plane (“Let’s Roll!”) bring their captors crashing down with them in a Pennsylvania field – and probably save the Capitol Building in DC…iconic passenger revolt. Overall, 3,000 persons are dead at the three sites (Manhattan Twin Towers, Pentagon, Pennsylvania) due to the 19 terrorists….
America coils, and then invades Afghanistan to rout the Taliban…
Followed by U.S. invasion of Saddam Hussein’s Iraq…. heavily hinged on basis of US–asserted Iraqi nuclear weapons production… later found to be erroneous (as of spring 2008)…..fighting still ongoing Spring 2008… 4,000 U.S. Servicemen killed as of 3/23/08.