nine-eleven


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nine-eleven

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9-11

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9/11

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the 11th of September 2001, the day on which the twin towers of the World Trade Center in New York were flown into and destroyed by aeroplanes hijacked by Islamic fundamentalists. Also called: September eleven
[C21: from the US custom of expressing dates in figures, the day of the month following the number of the month]
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The Bonn agreement officially known as the 'Agreement on Provisional Arrangements in Afghanistan Pending the Re-Establishment of Permanent Government Institutions', was signed two months after the US invasion of Afghanistan following the nine-eleven attacks.
In a tweet, he attributed such terror acts to the post nine-eleven Islamophobia under which the one point three billion Muslims of the world are being blamed for any act of terrorism by a single Muslim individual.
Indeed there has already been a harbinger of one: the Nine-Eleven Attack on the Twin Trade Towers, an event that the novel calls the Cataclysm and with which it begins.
After seven CIA operatives are killed in a suicide double-cross at Camp Chapman, Afghanistan-including (in a move as old as Homer) her only near-friend (Jennifer Ehle)--it's not Vin Diesel but Maya who pledges, "I'm going to smoke everyone involved in this op, and then I'm going to kill bin Laden." CIA agent Carrie Mathison (Clare Danes), in the series Homeland, needs quirky neuroses to keep her gunning for terrorists; but Maya has just one crystal-clear motive: she's an American citizen who wants revenge on the mastermind of Nine-Eleven. And Maya--dangerous only when provoked--is a very tough customer.
Nine-eleven had several, several memorial television programs to it that air every year on 9-11.
The Foreign Office spokesman Sunday Reacting to the statement given by US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton that the perpetrator of US Nine-Eleven and Indian 26/11 are in Pakistan said that the US Secretary of state allegations have not contact with reality.