This year marks the 10th anniversary of the horrific attacks on the World Trade Centre, the Pentagon and the United 93 flight that was brought down in Shanksville, Pennsylvania. These tragic events claimed 2977 lives, and they changed the world forever. Here we remember 9/11 and the subsequent events that unfolded over the following decade. Events that one way or another, have affected us all. By Sian Claire Owen
Twin tower attacks
Early morning on Tuesday September 2001, four passenger planes were hijacked by 19 al-Qaeda terrorists.
The towers collapse
Two hours after American Airlines flight 11 and United Airlines flight 175 crashed into the Twin Towers, the buildings collapsed.
Dangerous debris
People flee from clouds of poisonous dust and debris from the fallen towers that billow through the streets of Lower Manhattan.
Pentagon attacks
Meanwhile, one hour twenty minutes after the attack on the Twin Towers, the hijacked American Airlines 77 flight slams into the southwest E-ring of the Pen
Telling the President
This image captures the moment Chief of Staff Andrew Card interrupted President George W.
The aftermath
Perhaps one of the most iconic images of 9/11, this picture shows what was left of the Twin Towers once the dust had settled.
Missing persons
Photographs and notices of missing people were posted throughout New York. Even today more than 1000 bodies are still unaccounted for.
A time for grief
A population in shock gathered to remember those who were lost in the attacks.
The war on terror begins
Before 9/11 Osama bin Laden was largely unknown to the general public.
Fighting the Taliban in Afghanistan
Troops from the US, UK, and the Afghan United Front began their laborious and bloody fight against the Taliban.
The Bush-Blair affair
Around this time the ‘special relationship’ between UK Prime Minister Tony Blair and President George Bush started to blossom.
The Iraq war
Despite one of the largest public protests in UK history, Tony Blair and his cabinet frog-marches the UK into war with Iraq.
Saddam on trial
Perhaps one of the most sensational moments of the Iraq War was the capture and trial of Saddam Hussein.
Abu Gharib scandal
Leaked images of US soldiers torturing and degrading inmates at the notorious Abu Gharib prison in Baghdad shocked the world.
London bombings on 7/7
On the 7th July 2005 Islamic fundamentalists attacked London using the city’s transport system.
Waves of anti-Islam
The War on Terror sparked a wave of anti-Islamic sentiment across the West, including the rise of groups like the English Defense League (EDL) and the B
Guantanamo Bay
Perhaps one of the darker episodes of the War on Terror was the existence of the Guantanamo Bay detention centre in Cuba.
Bin Laden dead
Eventually, after nearly 10 years of playing cat and mouse, Osama bin Laden is assassinated by US special forces in his ‘palatial complex’ in Abb
Rising from the ashes
We have lived through 10 years of war, and witnessed seismic events that have changed the world we live in.
Never forget…
On the 10th anniversary of the World Trade Centre attacks, people remember those who died on 9/11 and those who were lost during the subsequ