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9/11: 9/11 represents the September 11, 2001 attacks against the United States during which Islamic terrorists, believed to be part of the Al-Qaeda network, hijacked four commercial airplanes and crashed two of them into the World Trade Center in New York City and a third one into the Pentagon in Virginia: the fourth plane crashed into a field in rural Pennsylvania. 9/11 claimed 2,996 lives including the 19 hijackers. In the wake of the incident, several reforms emanated including the promulgation of the US PATRIOT ACT of October 26, 2001, which led to the adoption of various biometric Cybersecurity technologies for global aviation control, immigrants' management, and automated surveillance.
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