One Day in History: September 11, 2001

Rodney P. Carlisle

• Publisher: HarperCollins e-books
• Year: 2009
• Print ISBN:
  9780061120381
• eBook ISBN:
  9780061984679
• Topic: History
• Subtopic: North American History
• Index: History

Offering a unique approach to history, this series of individual, popular encyclopedias will delineate and explain the people, places, events, chronology, and ramifications of pivotal days in history. One Day in History: September 11, 2001 will provide a comprehensive and engaging overview of this date in history as well as an examination of the themes related to the date–the attacks on the World Trade Center and Pentagon, the war on terror, and subsequent increase in patriotism. This volume will cover all aspects of September 11, 2001, including background information explaining what led to the date's events and post–date analysis discussing the effects and consequences of the day's events. More than 100 articles cover such topics as the timeline of events, biographies of the terrorists involved, films of 9/11, international reactions, the NYPD and FDNY, and the 9/11 commission.

SEARCHABLE TERMS

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A

Abbot, Steven, 50

Abdel-Rahman, Omar, 1–2, 8, 94, 132, 222

Able Danger, 136

Abode of Islam, 20

Abouhalima, Mahmud, 222

Abraham, Alona, 200

Abruzzo, John, 61

Abu Ghraib prison, 180

Achuthan, Lakshman, 139

Aden, Islamic Army of, 2–3, 232, 233

Afghanistan,

Al-Qaeda activities in, ix, 23, 24, 57, 78, 79, 133

Arab nationals fighting with mujahideen, 111, 132, 169, 175

coalition military actions in, vii, 4, 31, 97, 99, 214

Ministry for the Promotion of Virtue and the Prevention of Vice in, 101

Northern Alliance in, 175–176

Operation Enduring Freedom in, 4

poppy/heroin fields in, 4

Soviet occupation of, 1, 2, 3, 8, 20, 24, 132, 153

Taliban rule of, 3–4, 101–103

terrorist training camps in, 9, 11, 131, 183, 184, 187, 188

Africa,

bombing of American embassies in, 4, 80, 123, 211

counterterrorism operations in, 215

Ahmed, Fayez, 188, 189

Air Force One,

as command post following 9/11 attacks, 5, 29

as possible terrorist target, 4–5, 29

Airlines,

air/sky marshal program for, 7, 89

economic role of VCF in, 211

no-fly list, 7

security measures for, 6–7

transponder signals of, 14

See also Hijacking

Airport security, 6–7, 89

Aja, Ahmad, 222

Al Alwan, Sulayman, 187

Al-Banna, Hassan, 102–103

Al-Fadhli, Tariq, 232

Al-Gama’a al-Islamiyya, 1, 2

Al-Hassan, Abu, 2

Al Hawsawi, Mustafa Ahmed, 190

Al Haznami, Ahmed Ibrahim, 183–184

Al-Jazeera television, 23, 185

Al-Masri, Abu Hamza, 232

Al-Muhajiroun, 7–8

Al-Qaeda,

in Afghanistan, ix, 155

assets frozen in U.S., 57

attacks on U.S. targets in Saudi Arabia, 113

communiqués of responsibility by, 56

embassy bombings by, 55–56

founding of, 25

funding/financial backing of, 11, 162–169

ideology of, 8–9, 102–103

infiltration of, 172

organizations/activities in Europe, 118

participants in, 8–12, 172

planning September 11

hijackings by, 3, 10

recruitment of 9/11

hijackers by, 79

satellite cells in, 9, 78–80

short film by, 10

targets of, 8, 9–12, 113, 118

terrorist training camps of, 4, 9, 11, 57

Al Shifa pharmaceutical plant, 57

Al Sugami, Safam, as September 11 hijac...

Table of contents

• Cover
• Title Page
• Contents
• Preface
• Introduction
• Reader’s Guide to Articles
• September 11, 2001
• Abdel-Rahman, Sheikh Omar
• Aden, Islamic Army of
• Afghanistan
• Air Force One
• Airport Security
• Al-Muhajiroun
• Al-Qaeda
• American Airlines Flight 11
• American Airlines Flight 77
• Bali
• Beamer, Todd
• Bin al Shibh, Ramzi
• Bin Laden, Osama
• Bingham, Mark
• Burnett, Thomas E.
• Bush, George W.
• Cantor Fitzgerald
• Casualty Figures
• Cheney, Richard B.
• Conspiracy Theories
• Contamination
• Counterterrorism
• Department of Homeland Security
• Disaster Relief and Recovery
• Embassy Bombings
• Emergency Workers
• Evacuation, Buildings
• Evacuation, Lower Manhattan
• Families of September 11
• Films of September 11
• Fire Department of New York
• Gander, Newfoundland
• Germany
• Giuliani, Rudolph
• Glick, Jeremy
• Health, Long-Term Effects
• Hijacking
• Huffman Aviation
• Intelligence
• International Reaction
• Iraq
• Islamic Fundamentalism
• Jihad
• Joint Congressional Inquiry into Intelligence
• Judge, Mychal
• Khalid Sheikh Mohammed
• Khobar Towers
• Lawsuits
• Literature of September 11
• London Bombings
• Madrid Bombings
• Malaysia
• Media Coverage
• Memorials
• Moussaoui, Zacarias
• Mujahideen
• National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States
• NATO
• New York City
• New York Police Department
• Patriotism
• Pennsylvania, Shanksville
• Pentagon Attack
• Pentagon Building
• Persian Gulf War
• Port Authority of New York and New Jersey
• Quilt Project
• Qutb, Sayyid
• Rowley, Colleen
• Rumsfeld, Donald
• Saudi Arabia
• Seven World Trade Center
• SimCenter Inc.
• Sleeper Cells
• Sorbi’s Flying Club
• Taliban
• Terrorism, Causes of
• Terrorism, Results of
• Terrorists of September 11
• United Airlines Flight 93
• United Airlines Flight 175
• U.S. Reaction
• USA Patriot Act
• Victim Compensation Fund
• War on Terror
• Washington, D.C.
• Windows on the World
• World Trade Center 1993
• World Trade Center Plans
• World Trade Towers
• Yemen
• Yemen Islamic Jihad
• Yousef, Ramzi Ahmed
• Appendix
• Searchable Terms
• About the Author
• Copyright
• About the Publisher