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Those old enough will probably remember exactly where they were when they learned of the September 11 terror attack on the World Trade Center. For New Zealanders, it was early in the morning of September 12, when two passenger planes slammed into New York's Twin Towers. Hijackers flew the first plane into the north tower at 8:46am. Seventeen minutes later, a second plane hit the south tower. A third plane flew into the Pentagon in Virginia, and a fourth plane crashed into a field in Pennsylvania. The coordinated terrorist attack killed almost 3000 people. It was carried by militants from the Islamic extremist group Al Qaeda. At the time its leader Osama bin Laden was being harboured by the Taliban in Afghanistan. The attack on United States soil led to a war in Afghanistan that spanned two decades. On the morning of 9/11, US President George W Bush was at Emma B Booker Elementary school in Florida, to read with students. His Chief of Staff Andy Card was with him. Card would

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