Date of the attacks
September 11, 2001
Time the North Tower was hit
8:46AM
Time the South Tower was hit
9:03AM
Time the Pentagon was hit
9:37AM
Time of the Flight 93 crash
10;03AM
Total number of hijackers
19
Nationality/Background of hijackers
19 young Arabs acting for Islamist extremists
Weapons used by hijackers
Small knives, box cutters, and Mace or pepper spray
Total death toll (including planes)
2,973 (surpassing Pearl Harbor)
Deaths at the World Trade Center
More than 2,600
Deaths at the Pentagon
125
Deaths on the four planes
256
Estimated cost to execute 9/11
Between $400,000 and $500,000
Leader of al Qaeda during 9/11
Usama Bin Ladin
Mastermind of the “planes operation”
Khalid Sheikh Mohammed (KSM)
Tactical commander in the U.S.
Mohamed Atta
Al Qaeda’s chief of operations
Mohammed Atef
Location of the al Qaeda “Hamburg cell”
Hamburg, Germany
Regime providing sanctuary to al Qaeda
The Taliban in Afghanistan
First WTC attack date/method
February 1993, truck bomb
1998 Al Qaeda attacks
U.S. Embassies in Nairobi, Kenya and Dar es Salaam, Tanzania
Attack on the USS Cole (Date/Location)
October 2000 in Aden, Yemen
Primary reason for the 9/11 failure
A “failure of imagination” by the U.S. government
Two agencies responsible for air defense
FAA and NORAD
