This is an event of 2001, everyone thought of running their life in a normal way that day. Everyone reached their workplace. There were many roads. Events during the day.
"It was Tuesday. 20 years ago, on September 11, 2001. As usual, I arrived at work before 9 am that day. Five to seven minutes walk from the subway station in Grand Central, New York City, to the United Nations Headquarters. Nothing exceptional was noticed, but I stopped at the main entrance of 42nd Street. The door is closed, many people are gathering outside the gate. I heard that just a few minutes ago, the #TwinTowers of the World Trade Center crashed in a plane crash.
I looked up and saw thick black smoke billowing in the distant sky. No one knows exactly what happened. Moments later, I saw another plane crash into the second tower of the World Trade Center. There was no doubt, not an accident, it was a deliberate terrorist attack. The terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001 are known in history as the "Nine-Eleven Attacks."
This is how an eyewitness described the September 11, 2001 attack on the Twin Towers in a leading US newspaper.
One Bangladeshi said, ‘The office is closed. There could be more terrorist attacks; The subway was closed due to this fear. The exit tunnel from the city is also closed. Panic all around, ultimate uncertainty. My home is in Queens on the other side of the East River, there's no way to know what's going on there. Cellphones have not arrived yet. We walked back with thousands of people. I saw a caravan of people fleeing during the liberation war in 1971. But so many people, so many people from different countries are leaving in this way because of the same terror, I don't think I have seen that scene anywhere else. '
Saturday marks the 20th anniversary of the terrorist attack on the Twin Towers in the United States. The United States has been fighting in Afghanistan for the past 20 years. However, the wounds of the Nine-Eleven have not healed in the United States in so many years. Yet eyewitnesses and victims are overwhelmed by the frightening memories of Nine Eleven. On the other hand, the Taliban has returned to power in Afghanistan in exactly 20 years.
The attack on the Twin Towers killed 2,849 people in about 70 countries. Among them were 12 Bangladeshis.
According to a research report published by Brown University in September this year, nine lakh people have been killed in the US-led war in the last 20 years. The cost is eight trillion dollars. The study also found that militant attacks in the war on terror and the number of casualties caused by counter-terrorism have been included in the study. As such, Bangladesh is on the list of wars spread in 70 countries of the world.
The BBC's security correspondent Frank Gardner wrote on Friday: "The 9/11 attacks were the deadliest terrorist attack on the American mainland to date. After this incident, when the country suffered a great blow, many people began to see the rest of the world in the judgment of a very thick stain - "the world is divided into two parts, good people and bad people."
Exactly nine days after the 9/11 attacks, President George W. Bush declared, "Every country, every region must make a decision now." You are either with us, or you are with the terrorists. '
The so-called "eternal war on terror" was then declared, wrote Frank Gardner. The announcement was followed by an invasion of Afghanistan and then Iraq. The rise of the Islamic State group in the Middle East. Iran-backed militias spread. Thousands of soldiers and many more civilians were killed. Terrorism has not been eradicated - rather, almost every major country in Europe has been the target of terrorist attacks in recent years. But there are also some successes. So far there has been no attack as terrifying as the Nine Eleven. Al-Qaeda's base in Afghanistan has been destroyed. Their leader (Osama bin Laden) has been found and killed in Pakistan. The reign of terror that ISIS established through a self-proclaimed caliphate in a large area of Syria and Iraq has been shattered.
Al-Qaeda was accused of carrying out the attack. The United States launched a so-called counter-terrorism operation in Afghanistan in 2001, accusing the group of harboring Osama bin Laden and seeking revenge. He took his allies with him. Since then, in the last two decades, the United States has changed its goal of unilateral war many times; The level and scope of the threat of attack by different groups has changed.
Twenty years after President Bush's speech, the US-led war in Iraq and Afghanistan has killed millions of innocent civilians. The war has cost the United States billions of dollars.
Experts say recent developments, particularly the withdrawal of US troops from Afghanistan, could increase the ability of extremist groups to grow. They warned that the withdrawal of US troops from Afghanistan 20 years later and the establishment of Taliban control in the country could enable anti-US groups to become more organized and expanding; Which they have not received for many years.