Studied by 46 peopleSaudi Arabia
Osama Bin Laden was from ____________
Osama Bin Laden
-Islamic fundamentalist
-had a college degree
-father was a billionaire in construction
Islamic fundamentalist
Hates freedom of speech and religion, gender equality, the US, Jews, modernism, and people who aren’t Muslim.
Islamic moderate
-seek the 5 pillars of Islam
-can peacefully coexist with non-muslims
-does not follow the violent verses of the Keran
Islamic Serularists
People who say they Muslim but don’t really follow the 5 pillars.
Soviet Union, afghanistan
In 1979 the _________ invades __________
Afghanistan
The US side with __________ and provided war supplies
Afghanistan, Soviet Union
Osama went to ___________ to fight against ______________
1989
In _________ the soviet union left Afghanistan
Saddam Hussein
-dictator of iraq
invaded Kuwait (1990)
USA
Osama was rejected by Saudi Arabia in favor of the ________
Al Qaeda
-a terrorist group that Bin Laden formed in the 90s
-means “the base” or “the foundation”
-commit mass murder terrorist attacks all over the world and kills Americans overseas
Terrorist
A person or group who uses violence or threats of violence to get people to do what they want
Khalid Sheikh
-chosen by Bin Laden to plan attacks
-planned 9/11
Hijackers
teams of __________ are moved to the US (undercover) to prepare for attacks (on student visas)
team
-4 “muscle” hijackers
-1 trained pilot
Flight 11
-1st plane to hit the world trade center
-hits at over 500 mph
flight 175
-Hits the 2nd tower
-(2nd)
flight 77
-hit the Pentagon
-(3rd)
flight 93
-(4th)
-passengers fought back and the plane ended up being crashed into a field in pennsylvania
-we don’t know for sure where the plane was headed but we think it was headed for the US capital building
pentagon
-US military headquarters
-virginia (Washington DC)
WTC
-twin towers
-located in Manhattan (southern manhattan)
Boroughs
The 5 sections of New York City
Staten Island, Brooklyn, Bronx, Queens, and Manhattan
the 5 sections of NYC
Freedom tower
-replaces the twin towers
-is 1776 ft tall
water fountains
-the wtc memorial
-in the exact location and shape of the twin towers
Pentagon memorial
Has a bench for each person who died with a lit up rectangle of water underneath it
flight 93 memorial
A tall marble panel and a windchimes for each person that died near Shanksville Pennsylvania
Abbottabod, Pakistan
Where Bin Laden was in hiding
Rob O’weil
The first person to shoot Bin Laden
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