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9/11Paper/Story

IthadallstartedinWorldWarII.HitlerandthenazishadkilledmillionsofJewishpeople
bytheendofthewar.TheregoalwastocompletelycleanEasternEuropeoftheJewish
people.TheallieshaddecidedthattheJewishpeopleneededahome,aplacethattheycould
besafefromothereventsliketheholocaust.Thisland,wasPalestine.
PeoplehadalreadybeenlivinginPalestine,sothelandwasdividedevenlyamongthe
PalestiniansandtheJews.ManyconflictsaroseaftertheJewishpeoplesettledintotheirland.
ThePalestinians,whoaremuslimsarguedthatthelandbelongedtothem,andtheJewsargued
thesame.Thistensionbetweenthetwogroupssparkedconflictsandwars.Everytimethey
wenttowar,theAmericansandtheallieshadsupportedtheJewish,becauseofwhathappened
inWorldWarII.Afterthemanyviolentconflicts,theJewisheventuallygainedcompletecontrol
overtheland,nowknownasIsrael.
ThePalestinianpeoplehatedtheJewishpeoplebefore,buttheynowhadaspecial
angertowardstheUnitedStates.TheU.S.hadsupportedtheJewishpeopleineverywar
againstthem,andthatdidnotsitwellwiththem.ThishatredoftheUnitedStateswasthefuelto
createtheterroristgroup,AlQaeda.

OsamaBinLadenwasthecreatorofAlQaeda,anantiwesternterroristgroupfighting

forShariaLaw.TheregoalwastospreadShariaLawacrosstheworldanddestroytheUnited
Statesanditsallies.BinLadendecidedtoorganizeanattackagainsttheU.S.thatwouldput
fearintotheheartoftheirbiggestenemy.HeplannedtoattacktheWorldTradeCenterand
otherimportantplacesintheU.S..
OnSeptember11th,2001,bothtowersoftheWorldTradeCenterwerehit,alongwith
thePentagon.ThelasthijackedplanewascrashedinafieldinPennsylvania,headingtowards


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anotherimportantgovernmentbuilding.19terroristswereinvolvedthatday.Manypeoplehad
diedthatday,othersseriouslyinjured.
ThishadcausedtheWaronTerror.Afterthe9/11attacks,Americawenttowarwith
AlQaedaandotherIslamicextremistsfromtheMiddleEast.ThisalsocausedtheUnitedStates
tocreatethePATRIOTAct,whichallowstheN.S.A.tosearchthroughelectronicinformationof
suspectedterroristswithoutawarrant.
Eversince9/11,thewaronterrorisstillbeingfought,andisevenbiggerthanbefore.
TheU.S.isspendingbillionsoftaxpayerdollarsonthewar,withnoclearsignofstopping.Allof
thisviolencehadbeencausedjustbecauseofthethoughtsofonetwisted,evilman.

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