0:02 at 5 20 p.m world trade center 7
0:04 collapsed 2 after burning unchecked for
0:06 hours in less than two hours that
0:10 morning nearly 3 000 americans had died
0:12 the attacks stunned americans and late
0:14 that night president bush addressed the
0:15 nation assuring the country that quote
0:17 the search is underway for those who are
0:19 behind these evil acts
0:21 at ground zero in new york city three
0:23 days later bush thanked first responders
0:24 for their work
0:26 one worker yelled that he couldn't hear
0:28 the president president bush responded
0:30 i can hear you the rest of the world
0:31 hears you
0:33 and the people who knocked these
0:35 buildings down will hear from all of us
0:38 soon american intelligence agencies
0:40 quickly identified the radical islamic
0:42 militant group al-qaeda led by the
0:44 wealthy saudi osama bin laden
0:47 as the perpetrators of the attack
0:49 sheltered in afghanistan by the taliban
0:51 the country's islamic government
0:54 al-qaeda was responsible for a 1993
0:55 bombing of the world trade center as well
0:56 well
0:57 so you should know the difference
0:59 between al qaeda and the taliban
1:00 al-qaeda is the group that attacked the
1:02 united states on 911
1:03 the taliban was the government in
1:05 afghanistan that was
1:06 offering them protection was that was
1:09 allowing them to operate
1:12 al qaeda was also behind attacks at us
1:13 embassies and military bases around the world
1:14 world
1:17 bin laden's islamic radicalism and his
1:18 anti-american aggression attracted
1:20 supporters across the middle east
1:23 and by 2001 al qaeda was active in over
1:25 60 countries
1:26 and we'll pick up the next lecture with
1:29 a brief history of al qaeda
1:30 so there you have it your focus
1:32 questions for the day who attacked the
1:34 murrah federal building in oklahoma city
1:34 and why
1:37 who decided the 2000 election and who
1:40 attacked the united states on 9 11.
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