Rare photos of the events of September 11, 2001 (25 photos)
11 years ago, on September 11, 2001, the United States suffered terrorist attacks for which the terrorist organization al-Qaeda claimed responsibility. The official government version says that four groups of terrorists hijacked four passenger airliners. Two of them were aimed at the World Trade Center skyscrapers, the third was aimed at the Pentagon building, and the fourth crashed in Pennsylvania. Proponents of the conspiracy theory tensed up Moscow and subjected the version to sharp criticism, spraying saliva and pointing their fingers at obvious inconsistencies. Why weren't the wreckage of the plane that crashed on the Pentagon discovered? Why were no bodies found at the plane crash site in Pennsylvania? Why did not two buildings collapse, but three? Why did they collapse in the first place? In 1945, a B-25 crashed into the Empire State Building - and nothing happened. And so on and so forth. They are still arguing. They examine photographs pixel by pixel, make films, write articles.
Whatever the reality, the events of 9/11 caused a huge resonance throughout the world and had serious political consequences. American cowboys received the green light and, under the banner of the fight against terrorism, carried out anti-terrorism changes in legislation, allowing them to invade the private lives of citizens, and launched a war in Iraq and Afghanistan.
I remember that day I was riding in a taxi, when someone told me that “in New York it’s a mess, there’s smoke, stink, fire and you can’t see anything,” they said that China almost started bombing the States... Nobody cares I didn’t really know. In general, I got to the TV with mixed feelings and in a state of “nanny, I didn’t understand anything.” Back then, no one really understood what was happening.
