Law Homeland Security

Homeland Security

Professor Russell Brown

Unit 9 Assignment

Response to the 9/11 attacks

By: Richard R. Henderson

7/11/2015

9/11, similar to other additional dates in the past of our nation, will be eternally imprinted in all our nation memoirs. The actions of this catastrophic day seem to misremember, and the financial system is still sensitive to the load of the rebels attack on the WTC and the White House. The financial system was now experiencing a drop off before the assault. Regardless of the struggling times, Wall Street analysts thought that with the six Federal Rate cuts, the United States financial system could steer clear of depression.

Along came the 9/11 assault, an attack that baffled the country. Nevermore had an attack been made on United States mainland soil. Terrorists hijacked two United and two American Airlines airplanes. They signified strategic targets in our country. Onboard the aircrafts were approximately three to five hijackers on each plane. Rebels had knives and having at least one person among them capable of piloting the aircraft. The terrorists obtained the planes, discharged the aviators, and commanded the planes on self-destruction purposes. A pair of planes smashed into the WTC's Twin Towers in NYC, one crashed into the Pentagon in Washington D.C and the last was known to be in Pennsylvania. The aftermath of the strike, the Twin Towers deflated, a section of the Pentagon was damaged, and numerous people vanished. The assault was part of a jihad or holy war by the Muslims in the Middle East against America. They resent us for our freedom and our control of the Middle East. Americans reacted with real American courage and loyalty by enlisting and distributing assets.

Notwithstanding the trauma, long-term destruction, and disruption of public foundation and economic activities in the world's economic center, the U.S. financial system largely remained open throughout the day and after that. Banks and other industrial...