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|name=Evil | |name=Evil Acts}}{{Quote|The target of the terrorists was not only New York and Washington but the very values of freedom, tolerance and decency which underpin our way of life.|British Prime Minister [[wikipedia:Tony Blair|Tony Blair]]}}The '''September 11 attacks''', also commonly known and abbreviated as "'''9/11'''" refers to the infamous and tragic attack on the World Trade Center Twin Towers and Pentagon on September 11, 2001 by [[Militant Islam|militant Islamists]] loyal to [[Osama bin Laden|Osama Bin Laden]] - it involved the use of passenger planes as weapons in a forced-suicide attack similar to the famous kamikaze pilots of [[World War II]]. | ||
No end of conspiracy theories have been spawned by the attacks, the most common being that the United States government itself carried it out and pinned it on Islamic terrorists to justify invading the Middle East for its oil. | No end of conspiracy theories have been spawned by the attacks, the most common being that the United States government itself carried it out and pinned it on Islamic terrorists to justify invading the Middle East for its oil. |