20 Notorious Crimes of The Century (So Far).!
These 90s crimes shocked the world. For this list, we’ll be looking at the most publicized and high-profile crimes from 1990 to 1999. Our countdown includes the Murder of Phil Hartman, Attack on Nancy Kerrigan, Rodney King Beating, World Trade Center Bombing, Columbine High School Massacre, and more! What infamous crimes do you most remember from the ‘90s? Tell us in the comments.
10. Murder of Phil Hartman (1998)
The world was stunned when comedian and actor Phil Hartman was tragically killed by his wife, Brynn Hartman, who then took her own life. The murder-suicide left fans and colleagues in shock, grieving the loss of a beloved entertainer.
9. Attack on Nancy Kerrigan (1994)
The figure skating world was rocked when Olympic hopeful Nancy Kerrigan was attacked by a man hired by the ex-husband of her rival, Tonya Harding. The scandal dominated headlines and led to Harding being banned from the sport.
8. Rodney King Beating (1991)
The brutal beating of Rodney King by Los Angeles police officers was captured on video and sparked outrage and protests across the country. The subsequent acquittal of the officers involved led to the infamous 1992 Los Angeles riots.
7. World Trade Center Bombing (1993)
In February 1993, a truck bomb exploded in the parking garage of the World Trade Center, killing six people and injuring over a thousand. The attack was a precursor to the devastating events of September 11, 2001.
6. Columbine High School Massacr
10. Murder of Phil Hartman (1998)
The world was stunned when comedian and actor Phil Hartman was tragically killed by his wife, Brynn Hartman, who then took her own life. The murder-suicide left fans and colleagues in shock, grieving the loss of a beloved entertainer.
9. Attack on Nancy Kerrigan (1994)
The figure skating world was rocked when Olympic hopeful Nancy Kerrigan was attacked by a man hired by the ex-husband of her rival, Tonya Harding. The scandal dominated headlines and led to Harding being banned from the sport.
8. Rodney King Beating (1991)
The brutal beating of Rodney King by Los Angeles police officers was captured on video and sparked outrage and protests across the country. The subsequent acquittal of the officers involved led to the infamous 1992 Los Angeles riots.
7. World Trade Center Bombing (1993)
In February 1993, a truck bomb exploded in the parking garage of the World Trade Center, killing six people and injuring over a thousand. The attack was a precursor to the devastating events of September 11, 2001.
6. Columbine High School Massacr
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00:00Casey Anthony became the most hated woman in America.
00:03Welcome to WatchMojo, and today we're examining
00:0520 Notorious Crimes of the Century So Far.
00:08What's up and hi to all my fans.
00:11Who his fans are, who knows, but by this posting just yesterday
00:15it's clear Luca Magnata's narcissism was intact.
00:19For this list, we're looking at the most shocking
00:21and era-defining crimes that have occurred
00:24between the year 2000 and 2022.
00:27Do you remember hearing about these stories in the news?
00:29Let us know in the comments below.
00:32The Enron Scandal
00:34I think there was just an immediate sense of outrage
00:38at Lay and Skilling and Fastow
00:42when people realized how much they had profited
00:45and how completely artificial the appearance of this company had been.
00:50Formed back in 1985, Enron was an American energy company
00:53headquartered in Houston, Texas.
00:55Enron was claiming $100 billion in revenue by the year 2000,
00:59but the company collapsed just one year later,
01:02with Enron declaring bankruptcy in October 2001.
01:05It was revealed that Enron executives had been partaking in accounting fraud
01:09and hiding billions of dollars in company debt.
01:12Congress wants to know what caused the Enron meltdown,
01:15wants to know why employee retirement funds were wiped out,
01:18while at the same time top executives were personally making millions.
01:22Enron CEO Jeffrey Skilling was later sentenced to 24 years in prison.
01:27He served 12 and was released in February 2019.
01:31The Enron Scandal helped lead to the creation of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act,
01:35a federal law centered around corporate bookkeeping.
01:38It was at that point that I knew the architect of the disaster
01:43knows that it's crumbling and the rat is leaving the sinking ship.
01:46Brock Turner
01:47Brock Turner was guilty of three counts of sexual assault.
01:51He faced a maximum sentence of 14 years in prison for his crimes.
01:56The People v. Turner turned out to be one of the most controversial court cases
02:00of the century, not only for the nature of the crime,
02:03but for the hotly contested outcome.
02:05Brock Turner was a Stanford University student
02:08who assaulted an unconscious woman on January 18, 2015.
02:12Despite being convicted of felony sexual assault,
02:14Turner was sentenced to just six months in prison,
02:17resulting in public outrage.
02:19What we didn't know at the moment was the defeat of the light sentence
02:23was actually the most positive thing,
02:25because in that, it ignited a movement.
02:29To make matters worse, he only served three of the six months.
02:33The judge who presided over the case was eventually recalled,
02:36which essentially means that he was fired by county voters.
02:39And in response to the lenient sentencing,
02:42California passed a bill requiring a mandatory three-year prison term
02:46for the assault of an unconscious or intoxicated person.
02:50The statement that was essentially made by the passage of that mandatory minimum
02:53was, um, Judge Persky has screwed up so badly
02:57and so abused his discretion
03:00that we need to pass a law to make sure
03:03that no other judge can ever do this again.
03:06The 2005 London bombings.
03:08It really is a scene of some confusion here.
03:11On July 7, 2005,
03:13the United Kingdom experienced its worst terrorist attack in 17 years.
03:18The incident is known as the 7-7 bombings,
03:21owing to its taking place on the seventh day of the seventh month.
03:24In the midst of the morning rush,
03:26four Islamic terrorists detonated explosive backpacks across the city,
03:30targeting both the London Underground and the public Tavistock Square.
03:34I'd expected to see a monster,
03:37and I didn't see a monster.
03:39I saw a young man.
03:41Fifty-two citizens died in the bombings,
03:44and a further 784 were injured,
03:47making this the deadliest UK terrorist attack
03:50since the bombing of Pan Am Flight 103 on December 21, 1988.
03:55London was expected to be a target,
03:58but no amount of foreknowledge could prepare anyone for this.
04:02The Christchurch mosque shootings.
04:04These are people who I would describe as having extremist views
04:10that have absolutely no place in New Zealand.
04:13New Zealand's Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern
04:15referred to March 15, 2019 as one of her country's darkest days.
04:20That was when a gunman traveled to the Al Noor mosque
04:23and the Linwood Islamic Centre and committed two mass shootings,
04:26resulting in 51 deaths and 40 injuries.
04:30The shooting at Al Noor was live-streamed on Facebook
04:32and further disseminated through various video-sharing sites,
04:35resulting in further outrage.
04:37Three minutes later, he emailed his manifesto to 70 addresses,
04:42including the office of New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern.
04:45The shooter was a far-right extremist and terrorist
04:48who harboured a hatred of Islam,
04:50and he was eventually sentenced to life in prison without parole.
04:53This sentence was unprecedented in New Zealand's history.
04:57In response to the shooting,
04:58the country passed a bill banning semi-automatic guns,
05:01with a buyback scheme for such firearms that had been legally obtained.
05:05My feeling is that he chose New Zealand
05:09because it was a soft target in terms of security.
05:14The event has raised some real issues around gun control
05:18and gun licensing in this country.
05:20The disappearance of Madeleine McCann.
05:22In the end, it was a vacation that should never have happened.
05:30Missing person cases tend to captivate people,
05:32owing both to the nature of the stories and our interest in mysteries.
05:36And if there's one disappearance of the century
05:38that captured the world's attention,
05:40it was that of three-year-old Madeleine McCann.
05:43The English girl was vacationing with her family in Portugal
05:45when she went missing.
05:46She and her siblings were put to bed at 8.30 p.m.,
05:50while her parents went to dine at a nearby restaurant.
05:52When McCann's mother checked on her at 10 p.m.,
05:55she found her daughter missing.
05:56I then just went flying out down to the tapas restaurant.
06:03Shout, someone's taken Madeleine.
06:06The case turned into a media circus,
06:08with British tabloid Daily Express in particular
06:11blaming and vilifying Madeleine's parents.
06:13Madeleine's disappearance remains unsolved,
06:16although German authorities have put forth a man
06:18named Christian Bruckner as a prime suspect.
06:20He's currently in jail.
06:22Officers say he was regularly living in the Algarve
06:24between 1995 and 2007.
06:28He has always denied any involvement.
06:30The Orlando nightclub shooting.
06:32Those first few officers that get there
06:34need to go to that scene, go to the building
06:35and get in and engage that shooter.
06:37Chase after the shooter.
06:38That's correct.
06:38It was the deadliest attack against LGBTQ plus people
06:41in the history of the United States,
06:43claiming the lives of 49 victims with 58 others injured.
06:48In the very early morning of June 12th, 2016,
06:51domestic terrorist Omar Mateen shot up a gay nightclub
06:54in Orlando, Florida called Pulse.
06:56People were getting hit by bullets,
06:57like blood is everywhere.
06:59And then there was a moment where he stopped
07:01shooting in the bathroom.
07:02The FBI deemed the occurrence a terrorist attack.
07:05Mateen claimed that the shooting was motivated
07:08by US led interventions in Iraq and Syria.
07:11The police negotiated with Mateen for some hours
07:13following the shooting and over a dozen SWAT officers
07:16breached the building shortly after 5 a.m.
07:18They killed Mateen following a brief shootout.
07:21Then using explosives, police blew open the bathroom wall
07:24to take out the killer and save Tiara, Akira, Patience
07:28and the other hostages.
07:30The Boston Marathon bombing.
07:31First responders, I know came right over,
07:34but time felt like it was sand and snow.
07:36Seeing the US invasions of Iraq and Afghanistan
07:39as a war against Muslims, radicalized brothers,
07:42Zohar and Tamerlan Tsarnaev,
07:43staged this domestic terrorist attack.
07:46On April 15th, 2013, they placed two homemade
07:49pressure cooker bombs on the route of the Boston Marathon.
07:52Three were killed and hundreds were injured.
07:54What's an anomaly in a crowd of 10,000 people?
07:58Somebody that's wearing a hat that says, I'm the terrorist.
08:01The case remained cold for three days
08:03until the FBI released photos of the Tsarnaev brothers.
08:07They remained free until April 19th,
08:09when Tamerlan was killed in a shootout
08:11and Zohar was arrested.
08:12He was sentenced to death and is currently imprisoned
08:15in a Colorado supermax called ADX Florence.
08:18After listening to every word of testimony,
08:21I still couldn't really figure out how a kid
08:24who had a potentially promising future
08:28could commit such a horrendous violent act.
08:30The death of Kaylee Anthony.
08:32July 15th, 2008, the Orlando police get a 911 call
08:36from a woman.
08:37She gives her name as Cindy Anthony.
08:39In some ways, the trial of Casey Anthony
08:42is the 21st century's equivalent to the OJ Simpson case.
08:45It was studiously watched and studied by millions
08:49and it involved a flawed prosecution
08:51and highly controversial outcome.
08:53After missing toddler Kaylee Anthony was found dead
08:55on December 11th, 2008,
08:57suspicion immediately fell on her mother, Casey.
09:00We're not doing well, Casey.
09:02Someone just said that Kaylee was dead this morning.
09:05Surprise, surprise.
09:07What mother says surprise, surprise
09:10about the disappearance of her own daughter?
09:12The prosecution argued that Casey Anthony
09:14had grown sick of being a mother
09:15and killed her daughter with chloroform.
09:17The defense claimed that Kaylee had drowned
09:19and was secretly disposed of in the nearby woods.
09:23The defense won and Anthony was found not guilty,
09:26spurring public cries of outrage and disbelief.
09:30She's somewhere in Florida from what I understand.
09:33Whatever life she has,
09:34I hope she makes something positive for it.
09:37Am I ever gonna speak to my daughter again now?
09:40We're done.
09:41The Charlie Hebdo shooting.
09:48This tragedy catapulted questions about religion
09:51to the forefront of everyone's minds in January, 2015.
09:55Shortly before noon on January 7th,
09:57two Islamic terrorists entered the offices
09:59of the satirical French newspaper Charlie Hebdo
10:02and killed 12 people.
10:04Further 11 were also injured in the attack.
10:06The assailants remained free for two days
10:08but were eventually killed in a shootout with the police.
10:11They had targeted Charlie Hebdo for its cartoons
10:14of the Islamic prophet Muhammad,
10:15which many Muslim groups see as blasphemous.
10:21The response to the shooting was swift and fierce
10:24with marches in support of Charlie Hebdo held across France
10:27and the phrase,
10:28Je suis Charlie, or I am Charlie,
10:30trending across social media.
10:42Elizabeth Holmes in Theranos.
10:44The Elizabeth Holmes revolution
10:46turned out to be an extraordinary fraud.
10:51A lie that put lives in jeopardy.
10:53It seemed like the health technology company Theranos
10:56was set to change the world.
10:58The company claimed that it had revolutionized
11:00the science of blood testing
11:02and was subsequently valued at $10 billion
11:04in the mid-2010s.
11:06Its young founder, Elizabeth Holmes,
11:08had raised over $700 million in investments
11:11and was personally valued at over $4 billion.
11:14You all are part of something that is a revolution
11:18and you're part of something
11:20that is gonna change our world.
11:23What higher purpose is there?
11:24However, everything came crashing down in 2015.
11:28Experts started investigating Theranos' claims
11:31and with help from a whistleblower,
11:33the Wall Street Journal uncovered a dark secret.
11:35Theranos had lied about its technology,
11:38defrauding investors.
11:39Theranos was dissolved and Holmes was sentenced
11:42to just over 11 years in prison for criminal fraud.
11:45Not for a moment do I believe
11:47that she lies in bed at night
11:50and thinks I was a swindler,
11:53I was a crook, I lied.
11:55The murder of Jamal Khashoggi.
11:57Our timeline shows the ruthless efficiency
11:59of a hit team of experts
12:00that seemed specially chosen
12:02from Saudi government ministries.
12:04On October 2nd, 2018,
12:06Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi
12:08entered his country's consulate in Turkey
12:10while his fiance waited outside.
12:12Many believed he was killed inside the consulate
12:14as Khashoggi often criticized the Saudi government.
12:17This assertion remained unproven until October 25th
12:21when the Saudi government admitted their involvement.
12:23I wasn't aware of how dangerous it might be
12:26for Khashoggi to go into the consulate.
12:32I told Hatice to wait until I made some calls.
12:35A team of Saudi assassins ambushed Khashoggi
12:37inside the consulate, killed him and disposed of his body.
12:41They covered up evidence to suppress the truth
12:43throughout the following weeks.
12:44The CIA reported high confidence
12:46that Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman
12:48had ordered the murder.
12:50He became prime minister of the country in September 2022.
12:54And prosecutors are seeking the death penalty
12:56for several suspects in Khashoggi's killing.
12:59But that doesn't include Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman,
13:03who many Western government officials are convinced
13:05authorized the killing.
13:06The USA Gymnastics Scandal.
13:08When the story came out in 2016,
13:13Nassar just came back into my head.
13:15In September 2016, the Indianapolis star broke a major story
13:19about abuse in American gymnastics.
13:21USA Gymnastics was accused of ignoring complaints
13:24about coaches and covering up misconduct.
13:27At the center of the story
13:28was national team physician Larry Nassar,
13:30who for at least 14 years abused 265 women
13:35under the pretense of medical treatment.
13:37To try and justify the methodology that he used,
13:41Larry Nassar produced dozens of videos
13:44of him doing these various,
13:46what he described as osteopathic procedures
13:48to little girls.
13:49He was convicted of numerous charges
13:51at the state and federal level
13:53and will spend the rest of his life in prison.
13:55The United States Olympic Committee has announced
13:57that USA Gymnastics will be decertified
14:00and the body has filed for bankruptcy.
14:02We're on the elite national team.
14:04We're training at the world and the Olympic level.
14:07Your parents don't go with you
14:09and they trusted USA Gymnastics
14:12to make sure that they were protecting us.
14:15The Las Vegas shooting.
14:16It's at the end of the hallway.
14:19I can't tell you what room.
14:20He looked like he fired down the hallway
14:22when I got close to the door.
14:23On the night of October 1st, 2017,
14:26the United States experienced its deadliest mass shooting,
14:29surpassing the Orlando nightclub incident the previous year.
14:32For unknown reasons, a man named Steven Paddock
14:35took aim from the 32nd floor
14:37of the Mandalay Bay Hotel in Las Vegas
14:39and fired over 1,000 rounds
14:42into the audience of a country music festival.
14:44The shooting would claim the lives of 60 victims
14:46and injure roughly 867 others.
14:50A person in our country can go out
14:51and buy that many weapons and not break the law
14:54until one of those kills a human being
14:56is a challenge for law enforcement.
14:57The 23 guns found in Paddock's suite
15:00had been purchased legally
15:01and he had no documented history of mental illness.
15:05In response, the U.S. Justice Department
15:07banned the sale of bump stocks,
15:09which allowed semi-automatic weapons
15:10to fire in even more rapid succession.
15:13The city of Las Vegas came together
15:17almost as one big family.
15:19And they're still supporting each other
15:21despite the tragic event that happened.
15:24Jeffrey Epstein.
15:25All Jeffrey cared about was go find me more girls.
15:28His appetite was insatiable.
15:30He couldn't stop.
15:31For decades, financier and socialite Jeffrey Epstein
15:35used his power to abuse young women.
15:37Police and the FBI compiled overwhelming evidence in 2008
15:41only for Epstein to be given a sweetheart deal
15:44by U.S. attorney Alexander Acosta,
15:46negotiated by lawyer Alan Dershowitz.
15:48Epstein served just 13 months with work release.
15:51It wasn't until 2019
15:53that Epstein was arrested for sex trafficking.
15:55We're thrilled today with the ruling by Judge Berman
15:58only by taking away the freedom of Jeffrey Epstein
16:02can we restore the freedom of these victims.
16:05In the wake of the scandal,
16:06Acosta, who had become Donald Trump's labor secretary,
16:09resigned in disgrace.
16:11Epstein was found dead in a cell,
16:13having apparently taken his own life.
16:15However, given the high-profile people
16:17he may have implicated, from politicians to royals,
16:20theories have run wild.
16:22While Epstein escaped prosecution,
16:24co-conspirator Ghislaine Maxwell
16:26was sentenced to 20 years in prison.
16:28She set me up to walk myself to a predator's house
16:36where he assaulted me.
16:38The murder of George Floyd.
16:40According to the Minnesota statute,
16:42third-degree murder does not require an intent to kill.
16:46Y'all just really just killed that man.
16:48The combined charges carry a maximum sentence of 35 years.
16:52The killing of George Floyd may be the most infamous example
16:56of police brutality in the century so far.
16:58On May 25th, 2020, the police were called on Floyd
17:02after a store clerk accused him of using counterfeit money.
17:05Despite Floyd's cries that he couldn't breathe,
17:08responding officer Derek Chauvin knelt on his neck
17:10for nine minutes and 29 seconds, resulting in his death.
17:14The scene was caught on video,
17:16and public outrage led to the largest protests
17:19in U.S. history.
17:20The majority were peaceful,
17:21but there were also riots and looting in some cities,
17:24as well as instances of police violence
17:26against demonstrators and journalists.
17:28As the protest spreads, more and more incidents
17:32of the police response are relayed around the world.
17:35Okay, okay, I'm getting out, I'm getting out!
17:37Derek Chauvin was found guilty for the killing
17:39and sentenced to two decades behind bars.
17:42Attack on the United States Capitol.
17:44We go over one fencing,
17:46then we go to the next fencing, all the way.
17:50It's like bedlam, sheer bedlam.
17:51Nobody cares.
17:53Nobody cares about law or anything like that.
17:55That's it.
17:56The images of the furious and violent mob
17:58that stormed the U.S. Capitol are not easily forgotten.
18:01After Donald Trump lost the 2020 presidential election,
18:05he and his team sought to overturn the results,
18:08with 63 lawsuits and pressure on state
18:11and federal officials.
18:12As these attempts failed,
18:13and recounts confirmed the results,
18:15he held a rally on January 6th to repeat his false claim
18:19that the election was rigged.
18:20We're gonna walk down to the Capitol.
18:26And we're gonna cheer on our brave senators
18:29and congressmen and women.
18:31His followers, which included far-right militias,
18:34stormed the Capitol to prevent senators
18:36from certifying the election results.
18:38Some of the rioters on the grounds were armed with guns,
18:41knives, axes, batons, baseball bats,
18:44stun guns, and chemical sprays.
18:47The attack resulted in five deaths,
18:49with an additional four distraught officers
18:51taking their own lives in the months afterwards.
18:54I didn't want my name going down in history
18:55as the guy that gave up the Capitol.
18:57The Edward Snowden leaks.
18:59I remember what the internet was like
19:01before it was being watched,
19:02and there's never been anything in the history of man
19:04that's like it.
19:05We may have assumed that the government
19:07was watching prior to 2013,
19:09but we didn't know how.
19:11That year, NSA contractor Edward Snowden
19:13turned whistleblower and leaked thousands of documents,
19:16revealing a global mass surveillance program
19:19of foreign and domestic nationals
19:20orchestrated by the U.S. and its allies.
19:23Honestly, I don't want to be the person
19:26making decisions on what should be public
19:28and what shouldn't,
19:29which is why, rather than publishing these on my own
19:33or putting them out openly,
19:35I'm running them through journalists.
19:36He claims that he had raised concerns
19:38through internal channels to no avail.
19:40The programs collect data,
19:42including emails, text messages, metadata, and more,
19:45using corporate partnerships,
19:47or just by sucking information up en masse
19:49from data centers and fiber optic cables.
19:52Snowden fled the U.S. to avoid prosecution
19:55and has been labeled as a hero by his admirers
19:57and a traitor by his critics.
19:59I know how to keep a secret safe,
20:01and I also know when the public needs to know it.
20:04Harvey Weinstein.
20:06I think there are still a lot of people out there
20:08who know way more about what was happening here
20:11than what they've cared to share.
20:12The sexual abuse perpetrated
20:14by Hollywood producer Harvey Weinstein
20:16was an open secret for years.
20:18But in October 2017,
20:21exposés in The New York Times and The New Yorker
20:23laid everything bare.
20:25Since those reports,
20:26a total of over 80 women have accused Weinstein
20:29of sexual harassment or assault.
20:31Weinstein was eventually convicted
20:33and sentenced to 23 years in prison.
20:35Harvey Weinstein is unique
20:38in the sense that he was able to get away with this
20:41for so many years.
20:42Times are changing,
20:43and we hope that people will be willing to come forward
20:47and will be heard.
20:48The case sparked the MeToo movement,
20:50which seeks to publicize and end sexual misconduct.
20:53A number of other prominent figures
20:55faced similar allegations in the 2010s,
20:57including actor and comedian Bill Cosby,
21:00who was imprisoned but controversially released in 2021.
21:04Bill Cosby came out of his house with his lawyers today
21:06who talked to reporters there.
21:08Cosby was silent,
21:09but later gave an interview to a radio station.
21:12Sandy Hook.
21:13It takes an agonizing hour before it becomes clear
21:16just what's taking place inside the school.
21:19The United States was shocked on December 14th, 2012,
21:22when 20-year-old shooter Adam Lanza
21:24attacked Connecticut's Sandy Hook Elementary School.
21:27Lanza killed his mother before traveling to the school,
21:30where he proceeded to shoot and kill a further 26 people.
21:33He later took his own life.
21:35At the time,
21:36it was the second deadliest school shooting
21:38in American history,
21:39following Virginia Tech in 2007.
21:42Our hearts are broken today
21:45for the parents and grandparents,
21:48sisters and brothers of these little children,
21:51and for the families of the adults who were lost.
21:54The shooter's motive remains unknown.
21:56The incident prompted a powerful reaction in the media
21:58owing to the nature of the violence,
22:00the high body count,
22:02and the young ages of the victims.
22:04It also prompted some of the most infamous examples
22:06of misinformation this century,
22:08with popular conspiracy theorist Alex Jones
22:11spreading particularly cruel falsehoods.
22:14You realize now,
22:16you were mocking the difficult emotional reactions
22:19of people who provably lost their children.
22:22No, I was not mocking.
22:23I was showing what people were questioning.
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22:40What can you tell us about what you saw?
22:42I can tell you that I was watching TV
22:44and there was this sonic boom.
22:46September 11th, 2001,
22:48heralded the violence and unrest
22:50that would characterize the next few decades.
22:52With a list of grievances around US policies
22:55in the Middle East and elsewhere,
22:5619 Al-Qaeda terrorists hijacked and crashed
23:00three commercial airliners
23:01into the World Trade Center and the Pentagon.
23:03You can see the firemen assembled here,
23:05the police officers, FBI agents.
23:07A fourth plane was brought down
23:09following a revolt by passengers and crew.
23:11The deadliest terrorist attacks in history.
23:13September 11th claimed the lives of 2,977 victims
23:18and left thousands injured.
23:209-11 changed everything,
23:22entrenching conspiracy theories in our social fabric,
23:25ushering in a new era of mass surveillance
23:27and leading to the US-led invasions
23:29of Afghanistan and Iraq.
23:31It is an unforgettable tragedy
23:33that even decades later
23:36remains the most notorious crime of the century.
23:39On March 19th, 2003,
23:42George W. Bush and the United States military
23:45invaded the sovereign nation of Iraq,
23:49a nation that had never attacked the United States.
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