9/11 Anniversary: Remembering One Of The Deadliest Terrorist Attack In The World That Changed America

On September 11, 2001,a hijacked commercial plane crashed into the World Trade Center in New York. Today marks the 19th anniversary of the attack which is considered as one of the deadliest terrorist attacks in the world. The landmark skyscrapers were destroyed in the attack and Washington unleashed an all-out war on terrorism marking a turning point in US-Arab relations as With 15 of the 19 suicide hijackers carrying Saudi nationality and mastermind Osama bin Laden being the scion of a leading Saudi family.Image (AFP)

World Trade Center was a large complex of seven buildings in the Lower Manhattan, New York City, United States. The hijackers affiliated to the Islamic terrorist group Al-Qaeda crashed the two Boeing 767 planes onto the building destroying both the North and South Towers which completely collapsed. file photo shows smoke billowing up after the first of the two towers of the World Trade Center collapses in New York City. Another plane was crashed into the Pentagon in Washington, DC and a fourth was crashed into a field in Pennylvania. Image (AFP)

Nearly 3,000 people killed and more than 6,000 injured in the collapse of the World Trade Centre. In this file photo taken on September 12, 2001, Lower Manhattan is seen from Staten Island in New York as smoke continues to rise from the rubble of the World Trade Center twin towers. New York City continues to count people with cancer and other serious diseases, including lung disease, linked to the toxic cloud that hovered for weeks on the tip of Manhattan.Image (AFP)

This photo released by The White House 15 September, 2001, shows US President George W. Bush (C) meeting 14 September, 2001, with families of victims of the 11 September terrorist attack on the World Trade Center. Soon after the attacks Bush declared the war on terrorism which targeted Islamic fundamentalists groups such as the Al-Qaeda, and the Taliban. After years of war, the mastermind of the attack and Al-Qaeda Chief Osama bin laden was killed in Pakistan in the year 2011, where he was living in hiding. Image (AFP)

The Tribute in Light memorial consisting of two shafts of light to represent the World Trade Center Twin Towers is lit 11 March, 2002, in New York on the six month anniversary of the terrorist attack that destroyed the towers. A new he knew World Trade Center complex has been constructed at the site which includes a museum and memorial, and a transportation hub building that is similar in size to Grand Central Terminal. The One World Trade Center is tallest building in the complex.Image (AFP)

A New York City firefighter and others hug in the pit as mourners pay their respects to lost ones of the World Trade Center attack during the 9/11 Commemoration Event 11 September, 2003, at the World Trade Center site. Image (AFP)