Lake County Gazette

State Sen. Dan McConchie  recently honored the lives lost on Sept. 11, 2001.

“Let us never forget this attack on the innocent and sacrifices made by our first respondents who died trying to save them,” McConchie posted on Twitter.   

Nearly 3,000 people were killed when planes hijacked by 19 terrorists with ties to the Islamic extremist group al-Qaeda crashed them into the twin towers of the World Trade Center in New York City, the Pentagon in Washington, D.C., and into a field in Pennsylvania. The deadly attacks were traced to Osama bin Laden, then the leader of the militant Islamic organization al-Qaeda.

Just days later, President George Bush placed a $25 million bounty on bin Laden's his head, calling for his capture, dead or alive.

Roughly a decade later on May 6, 2011, under then-President Barack Obama, American forces were able to track bin Laden to the Pakistani city of Abbottabad, where a team of Navy Seals were able to locate and kill him.