Foreign and Domestic Wars Against Terror

The Terrorists that Attacked America

• The attackers were Islamic terrorists from Saudi Arabia

  • Financed by Osama Bin Laden

• They were retaliation against America becasue...

  • Of its involvement in the Persian Gulf War

  • The United States supported Isreal

  • The United States continued to have presence in the MIddle East

• The attackers had done their traning insude the U.S. by going through flight school to learn how to fly the comercial jets

• The terrorists were able to easily slip weapons onth the flights that they were taking