Enclosure (2000s)

Abstract

‘A hellish storm of ash, glass, smoke and leaping victims’ – this is how the New York Times described the pandemonium (the newspaper actually invoked Hieronymus Bosch to render the picture more vivid)¹ that followed after two planes crashed into the World Trade Center (WTC). In little more than half an hour later, a third plane flew into the Pentagon in Washington D.C. Finally, the fourth plane crashed close to Shanksville, Pennsylvania. The 19 perpetrators of the attacks, which took close to 3,000 lives, were shortly afterwards associated with the Al-Qaeda organization.