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= __Twin Tower__ = media type="youtube" key="-_DwF3Rl708?fs=1" height="346" width="432" align="right" On September 11, 2001, 19 al-Qaeda terrorist led by Osama bin Laden hijacked four commercial passenger jet airliners. The hijackers intentionally crashed two of the airliners into the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center in New York City, killing everyone on board and many others working in the buildings. Both buildings collapsed within two hours, destroying nearby buildings and damaging others. The hijackers crashed a third airliner into the Pentagon in Arlington, Virginia, just outside Washington, D.C. The fourth plane crashed into a field near Shanksville in rural Pennsylvania after some of its passengers and flight crew attempted to retake control of the plane, which the hijackers had redirected toward Washington, D.C. There were no survivors from any of the flights. Nearly 3000 victims and the 19 hijackers died in that attack. Among the 2752 victims who died in the attacks on the World Trade Center were 343 firefighters and 60 police officers from New York City and the Port Authority and over 6,000 people were injured. 184 people were killed in the attacks on the Pentagon. The United States responded to the attacks by launching the War on terror it invaded Afghanistan to depose the Taliban, who had harbored al-Qaeda terrorists.