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9/11 terrorist attacks

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The 9/11 terrorist attacks refer to a series of coordinated suicide hijackings by the extremist group Al-Qaeda on September 11, 2001, in which commercial airplanes were used as weapons to target important landmarks in the United States, resulting in the loss of thousands of lives.

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