The terrorist attack in New York on September 11, 2001, became a major tragic event that forever changed the course of the history of the 21st century and left its mark on the destiny of all mankind.
On that terrible day, 19 extremists from the al-Qaeda terrorist group hijacked four passenger planes, two of which were directed to the twin towers of the World Trade Center in New York, 1 - to the building of the Ministry of Defense (Pentagon) in Washington. Another crashed near the city of Shanksville, Pennsylvania. The victims of the tragedy were about 3 thousand people - Americans and citizens of 91 countries. All 19 terrorists were also killed.
Addressing the nation on the tragic events, US President George W. Bush said, in particular, "We will not differentiate between the terrorists who committed these acts and those who conceal them". These words actually set out the doctrine of the Bush administration's future foreign policy called the War on Terror. The latter consisted in the struggle of the American state with international terrorist organizations, especially with Al Qaeda. That same year, an international alliance led by the United States overthrew the regime of the Islamist radical religious-political movement Taliban in Afghanistan, on the territory of which the main forces of the al-Qaeda group were based. In 2011, US special forces killed the ideological instigator, the organizer of the 9/11 attacks, the "terrorist № 1" Osama bin Laden on his own estate in Pakistan.
The emotional stress caused by the attacks on one of New York's most famous landmarks (the World Trade Center) was extraordinary. Hundreds of thousands of people witnessed the horrific event, and millions watched the deployment live on television. Fear for one's own life and the lives of one's relatives, helplessness and inevitability in the face of death, depressive states have long entered the lives of all mankind.
Unfortunately, we are still witnessing the consequences of the September 11 tragedy today - acts of violence and murder committed by radicals, supporters of xenophobic and chauvinistic ideas are erupting in almost every corner of the world. Understanding and understanding the perniciousness of such ideas at the stage of their emergence is the key to preventing systemic evil, which manifests itself in terrorist attacks, ethnic conflicts and genocide.