9/11/01 8:14 – Flight 11 is hijacked over central Massachusetts.
9/11/01 8:17 United Airlines Flight 175 departs Boston Logan international airport.
9/11/01 8:20 American Airlines Flight 77 departs Washington Dulles International Airport.
9/11/01 8:41 ATC believes American Airlines Flight 11 has been hijacked, headed towards JFK airport.
9/11/01 8:42 United Airlines Flight 93 departs from Newark for San Francisco
9/11/01 8:42 United Airlines Flight 175 is hijacked
9/11/01 8:45 On Flight 11, a flight attendant reports "Something is wrong. We are in a rapid descent." Asked to look out a window to try and determine where they were, flight attendant says: "We are flying way too low." Seconds later she says, "Oh my God, we are way too low."
9/11/01 8:46:40 American Airlines Flight 11 impacts the North Tower of the World Trade Center
9/11/01 8:52 On United Airlines Flight 175, a flight attendant calls the airline's San Francisco office and says the aircraft has been hijacked and both pilots have been killed.
9/11/01 8:54 American Airlines Flight 77 is hijacked
9/11/01 9:03 United Airlines Flight 175 impacts the South Tower of the World Trade Center
9/11/01 9:05 Andrew Card tells President Bush "A second plane hit the second tower. America is under attack."
9/11/01 9:06 FAA orders a groundstop on all aircraft in the Northeast
9/11/01 9:08 FAA orders a nationwide groundstop
9/11/01 9:28 United Airlines Flight 93 is hijacked. A struggle is broadcast over the ATC frequency and First Officer LeRoy Homer is heard screaming "Mayday! Mayday! Get out of here! Get out of here! Get out of here!"
9/11/01 9:34 A Dulles Airport controller calls the TRACON at Reagan Airport, and says: “Hey! Untracked target 15 [miles] west of you. Primary target eastbound! Heading toward P-56!” (White House) DCA informs Secret Service that an unknown aircraft is heading towards Washington.
9/11/01 9:37 American Airlines Flight 77, flying at 530 mph, impacts the first floor on the west side of the Pentagon. The U.S. Army suffered 75 fatalities, 53 civilians and 22 soldiers, while the U.S. Navy suffered 42 fatalities, nine civilians and 33 sailors.
9/11/01 9:45 US airspace is closed.
9/11/01 9:58 passengers on United Airlines Flight 93 begin to attempt to retake the plane.
9/11/01 9:59 The South Tower of the World Trade Center collapses
9/11/01 10:03 United Airlines Flight 93 crashes into a field near Shanksville, PA.
9/11/01 10:28 the North Tower of the World Trade Center collapses.
2,976 people were killed in the attack, and more than 6,000 others were injured.
246 on the four planes, 2,606 in the World Trade Center and in the surrounding area, and 125 at the Pentagon.
1,140 people who worked, lived, or studied in Lower Manhattan at the time of the attack have been diagnosed with cancer as a result of "exposure to toxins at Ground Zero"
American service members killed in Afghanistan through April: 2,448.
U.S. contractors: 3,846.
Afghan national military and police: 66,000.
Other allied service members, including from other NATO member states: 1,144.
This may be the most hilarious weapon system fielded by any military in the world
It’s a Bulsae-3 ATGM mounted in the back of an agricultural tractor. They seem to be very similar to ones featured in a state visit in 2017 to the Kumsong Tractor Factory.
The new PM Mullah Akhund is under UN sanctions. He's been the head of the Rehbari Shura, or leadership council. He was previously the foreign minister and then deputy prime minister during the Taliban’s last stint in power from 1996-2001.
1st Deputy Ghani Baradar was the chief Taliban negotiator in Qatar, he was freed from a Pakistani prison in 2018 under request from the US. For a while he has been considered the de facto leader of the Taliban. thediplomat.com/2018/10/why-do…
House Intel Committee Chair Schiff and Intel Committee Member Jason Crow both just said intelligence had been warning of a quick collapse in Afghanistan for months
“Over the course of the last six months. And there were any number of warnings that the Taliban might take over, and some that included a potential of a very rapid, the Afghan government enforces."
Crow-
"I do not believe at this point, sitting here today, that I have any evidence of a intelligence failure”
There seems to be a certain corner of the left wing press lashing out at pretty much every single other press org over Afghanistan. Calling them warmongers, saying that they helped cause the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, and asking why they aren’t blaming this on Trump.
It’s the job of the press, especially in Washington, to hold those in power accountable for their actions. That’s what they are doing now.
Trump may have designed the current situation in Afghanistan but Biden put the plan into effect.
Mixed rumors right now but it seems that the Government resistance forces in Afghanistan hit Taliban forces as they were maneuvering to enter Panjshir.