2000s in history

2000s in history refers to significant events in the 2000s.

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The September 11 attacks,^{[lower-alpha 1]} commonly known as 9/11,^{[lower-alpha 2]} were four coordinated Islamist terrorist suicide attacks carried out by al-Qaeda against the United States in 2001. Nineteen terrorists hijacked four commercial airliners, crashing the first two into the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center in New York City and the third into the Pentagon (headquarters of the U.S. Department of Defense) in Arlington County, Virginia. The fourth plane crashed in rural Pennsylvania during a passenger revolt. The September 11 attacks were the deadliest terrorist attacks in history. In response to the attacks, the United States waged the multi-decade global war on terror to eliminate hostile groups deemed terrorist organizations, as well as the foreign governments purported to support them.

↑ Al-Qaeda's name for the events is the Manhattan Raid, though this name is rarely used by non-jihadist sources.^[1]
↑ The expression 9/11 is typically pronounced "nine eleven" in English,^[2] even in places that use the opposite date format. The slash is not pronounced.

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