Bill O'Reilly here Friday, September 10, 2021.

You are listening to the O'Reilly update.

Here's what's happening this week in America.

Tomorrow marks the 20th anniversary of the 9-11 terror attacks, the greatest wound inflicted

on the American homeland since Pearl Harbor on September 11, 2001.

19 Islamic fundamentalists armed with box cutters and other rudimentary weapons, sees control

of four commercial passenger jets.

At 8.45 a.m., an American Airlines Boeing 767 loaded with 20,000 gallons of jet fuel crashed

into the north tower of the World Trade Center.

18 minutes later, another plane hit the south tower.

At 9.45 a.m., a third aircraft crashed into the west side of the Pentagon.

The fourth plane descended into a field in rural Pennsylvania after passengers on that

plane fought the terrorists on board and things spiraled out of control.

Within two hours, the twin towers were gone.

3,000 people killed.

That figure includes 343 firefighters and paramedics, 23 members of the NYPD, 37 port authority

police officers who were working to get people out of the burning buildings.

Two decades later, at least 10,000 people have been diagnosed with cancer and other diseases

related to the 9-11 attack.

3,000 have died from illness since 2001.

The attack sparked the global war on terror, launched by President Bush the Younger.

It continued under Barack Obama and Donald Trump, and we are vividly seeing it now in

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