A haunting image of the New York City skyline, after two airliners strike the World Trade Center towers on the morning of September 11, 2001. (Photo: Public Domain)
The world soberly marks the tenth anniversary of the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks today.
While the hijacked passenger jets slammed into the World Trade Center in New York City and the Pentagon in Washington DC, the impact has been felt here as well.
Residents we talked to will never forget where they were when the attacks occured and many believe the world has changed substantially in the wake of the attacks. One said "I don't think the United States is going to be sleeping anymore, they woke a sleeping giant, and they're never going to let that happen again".
The attacks killed close to 3000 people in New York, Washington, and at Shanksville, PA, where a fourth plane crashed in a field after its passengers overpowered the hijackers. About two dozen Canadians are included in the death toll.
The terrorist group al-Qaida took credit for the attacks and it launched a war in Afghanistan that has lasted to this day.
9/11 also spawned much stricter airline security and controversial anti-terror legislation in both the United States and Canada.
The American military killed al-Qaida's leader Osama Bin-Laden in Pakistan earlier this year.
Shawn Mulllin reports on the tenth anniversary of the attacks, airing during our radio newscasts today:
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