9/11

## The September 11 Attacks

Strength| * Dozens of police, fire and military personnel
* 45 S.C.A.R.E.D. Operatives

Casualties| * 2,977 killed
	+ 25,000 wounded
* several S.C.A.R.E.D. Operatives

9/11 or the September 11 attacks, was a battle that took place in the United States of America, carried out by Al-Qaeda terrorists.

## S.C.A.R.E.D.verse

The **September 11 attacks**, also commonly referred to as **9/11**, were a series of four coordinated terrorist attacks by the militant Islamist terrorist group al-Qaeda against the United States on the morning of Tuesday, September 11, 2001. On that morning, four commercial airliners traveling from the northeastern U.S. to California were hijacked mid-flight by 19 al-Qaeda terrorists. The hijackers were organized into three groups of five hijackers and one group of four. Each group had one hijacker who had received flight training and took over control of the aircraft. Their explicit goal was to crash each plane into a prominent American building, causing mass casualties and partial or complete destruction of the targeted buildings. Two of the planes hit the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center, and a third hit the west side of the Pentagon. A fourth plane was intended to crash into a target in Washington, D.C., but instead crashed into a field near Shanksville, Pennsylvania, following a passenger revolt.

The first plane to hit its target was American Airlines Flight 11. It was flown into the North Tower of the World Trade Center complex in Lower Manhattan at 8:46 am. Seventeen minutes later at 9:03 am, the World Trade Center's South Tower was hit by United Airlines Flight 175. Both 110-story towers collapsed within an hour and forty-two minutes, leading to the collapse of the other World Trade Center structures including 7 World Trade Center, and significantly damaging surrounding buildings. A third flight, American Airlines Flight 77, flown from Dulles International Airport, was hijacked over Ohio. At 9:37 am, it crashed into the west side of the Pentagon (the headquarters of the American military) in Arlington County, Virginia, causing a partial collapse of the building's side. The fourth, and final flight, United Airlines Flight 93, was flown in the direction of Washington, D.C. The plane's passengers attempted to regain control of the aircraft away from the hijackers and ultimately diverted the flight from its intended target; it crashed into a field near Shanksville, Pennsylvania, at 10:03 am. Investigators determined that Flight 93's target was either the U.S. Capitol or the White House.

However, what was unknown to the general public, Stealth Combat And Rescue Elite Deployment operatives, led by Captain George Rodgers, were fighting in a battle deep within the Pentagon with members of the mysterious organization, The Order, a secret militarized group belonging to the Judicial System. S.C.A.R.E.D. Forces were maintaining protection on a private sector within the Pentagon, housing important information on the Trinity of Secrecy groups. The Order wanted access to this room for unknown reasons, and engaged in combat with the guards. The fighting lasted for a little over a half hour, before the Order operatives retreated from the area. S.C.A.R.E.D. Forces pursued, but were unable to cut them off.

## Aftermath

The attacks devastated the United States, and started the War on Terror. The United States ordered an immediate response where they hunted down Osama bin Laden, with S.C.A.R.E.D. forces investigating what the Order was searching for.