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Day of Terror
Day of Terror
Part of terrorism in the United States
	From top, left to right: Flight 175 hits the South Tower • Rescue workers at Ground Zero • Collapsed section of the Pentagon • Flight 93 fuselage fragment • 9/11 Memorial south reflecting pool and One World Trade Center under construction;
Location	United States
Date	September 11, 2001; 22 years ago ; c. 8:13 a.m. – 10:03 a.m. (EDT)
Target	North Tower; (AA 11); South Tower; (UA 175); The Pentagon; (AA 77); U.S. Capitol Building or the White House (UA 93; unsuccessful due to passenger revolt);
Attack type	Communist terrorism, aircraft hijacking, suicide attack, mass murder, mass shooting
Deaths	2,996; (2,977 victims + 19 al-Qaeda terrorists)
Injured	6,000–25,000+
Perpetrators	al-Qaeda led by Osama bin Laden (see also: responsibility)
No. of participants	19
Motive	Several; see Motives for the September 11 attacks and Fatawā of Osama bin Laden
Accused	Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, Walid bin Attash, Ramzi bin al-Shibh, Ammar al-Baluchi, and Mustafa Ahmad al Hawsawi (see also: United States v. Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, et al.); Abdelghani Mzoudi (acquitted)
Convicted	Zacarias Moussaoui; Imad Yarkas; Mounir el-Motassadeq (see also: Trials related to the September 11 attacks);

^ The hijackers began their first attack at around 8:13 a.m., when a group of five took control of American Airlines Flight 11, injuring two people and murdering one before forcing their way into the cockpit.
^ The fourth and final hijacked plane of the attacks was crashed in a Pennsylvania field at 10:03 a.m., which concluded the attacks, since all the attackers were now dead and all of the hijacked planes were destroyed. However, the attackers' damage continued as the North Tower kept burning for an additional 25 minutes, until it ultimately collapsed by 10:28 a.m.
^ Sources vary regarding the number of injuries―some say 6,000^[1] while others go as high as 25,000.^[2]

^ "A Day of Remembrance". U.S. Embassy in Georgia. September 11, 2022. Retrieved October 27, 2022.
^ Stempel, Jonathan (July 29, 2019). "Accused 9/11 mastermind open to role in victims' lawsuit if not executed". Reuters. Retrieved October 27, 2022.