Episode 2: The Al-Qaeda Menace
Air date: 5 January
On 11 September 2001, international Islamist group Al-Qaeda hijacked four passenger planes, and deliberately flew two of them into the World Trade Center, one into The Pentagon, and crashed the other in a field in Pennsylvania, killing 2,998 people. It took 105 minutes for both World Trade Center towers to collapse
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