Why was the twin towers attacked?Was there a specific reason that ,that building in particular was attacked?

Question

Pleas do not give me negative answers.I'm just curios....I know it has been almost 6 years since the incident, but there is a doumentart on discovery channel that caught my attention

Answer 1

1. It was an easy target (nice and tall).
2. Many, many people worked there so they killed a lot of
people at one time.
3. People who did work there were from many different
countries.
4. They targeted 3 or 4 places where high profile people
would be.
5. Because the pilots were evil people with evil minds and an
evil ambition to kill and create caos among the American people.

Answer 2

The Twin Towers were, as much as any building, a symbol of the energy and industry of the United States. The terrorists also targeted (we think) the White House and the Capitol, both of which are highly symbolic, but one plane hit the Pentagon instead and the other one crashed in Pennsylvania. Buildings elsewhere of similar symbolic importance would include Parliament and Buckingham Palace in Britain, and Versailles and the Louvre in France.

Answer 3

All the attacks on the Twin Towers by extremists are based on the fact that they were the business hub of the international or western community, as well as the most prominent signs of prosperity in the city of New York; For the same reason that the IRA attacked the London Stock Exchange repeatedly, it was to demoralise business and commerce and therefore the core of secular western society.

Answer 4

Bin laden identified the twin tower as the economic center and symbols of economic power of America. If he destroyed these he though he might hurt us bad enough that we wouldn't respond.
Why did he think this? Clinton gave him the idea with the attacks on the Twin Towers(the 1st time) and Kosovo. He thought we would a paper tiger. Bush proved him wrong. There is another documentary coming that casts the blame squarely on the clinton administration, democrats reviewed and hated it... it must have a lot of truth in it then.

Answer 5

Because it was a symbol of the economic might of America.

Same reason why the Pentagon was also attacked, it is a symbol of military strength.

The other target, either the White House, Capitol building or Camp David, for its Political symbolism.

Answer 6

I agree with the others above, but I also think that it represented a centre of western ideals and beliefs (not necessarily 'might'). On top of that, it was a place that usually had a lot of people, and if you want to make a big statement, the more people affected, the more people will find out about it. I think that the people who did it REALLY wanted it to be seen and felt across the country.

Answer 7

it represented a large target of american interests in the world


i forget how many nations had people there

Answer 8

alot of people and such a big target

Answer 9

its a symbol of American power