Causes Of The 9/11 Attacks

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Prior to the 9/11 attack there were a few terrible events that were considered weapons of mass destruction attacks. In 1993, there was the World Trade Center bombing by Muslim terrorist. The Tokyo subway attack that was carried out by the Aum Shinnkyo cult group. What was unique about them is that they made their own sarin gas and prior to the subway attack they actually carried out an earlier attack using the same chemical. The Oklahoma City attack was carried out by an extremist named Timothy McVeigh (home grown terrorist) he killed 169 people and wounded hundreds more. I would like to think that the previous events plus other attacks that have happen around the world started the different agencies and political leaders thinking

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