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2001 - Sept 11 - Terrorist fly airplanes into the World Trade Center buildings in New York City, and one into the Pentagon in Washington DC, a fourth plane which was hijacked was flown into the ground due to a passenger take over. Cell phone conversations with their loved ones tipped them off to the intent of the hi-jackers. 2001
- Sept 23 - President George W. Bush returned the
American flag to full staff at Camp David, symbolically
ending a period of national mourning. Thousands gathered
at New York's Yankee Stadium to offer prayers for the
victims of terrorism; Mayor Rudolph Giuliani pledged
that "our skyline will rise again." 2001 - Sept 24 -President Bush ordered a freeze on the assets of 27 people and organizations with suspected links to terrorism, including Islamic terrorist Osama bin Laden, and urged other nations to do likewise.
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