a child, is sworn in as the democratically elected 48th Prime Minister of Bulgaria. August August 1 – Alabama Supreme Court Chief Justice Roy Moore has a Ten Commandments monument installed in the judiciary building, leading to a lawsuit to have it removed and his own removal from office. August 10 – The United States and the United Kingdom bomb air force installations in Iraq in response to attacks on American and British planes. August 13 – Macedonian and Albanian representatives sign the Ohrid Agreement to reduce conflicts during the insurgency. August 21 – Operation Essential Harvest: NATO sends a military forces to the Republic of Macedonia in response to the ongoing insurgency. August 31 – The World Conference against Racism 2001 begins in Durban, South Africa. September September 3 In Belfast, Protestant loyalists begin a picket of Holy Cross, a Catholic primary school for girls. For the next 11 weeks, riot police escort the schoolchildren and their parents through hundreds of protesters, amid rioting and heightened violence. The United States, Canada and Israel withdraw from the U.N. Conference on Racism because they feel that the issue of Zionism is overemphasized. September 9 – A suicide bomber kills Ahmad Shah Massoud, military commander of the Afghan Northern Alliance. September 10 – Antônio da Costa Santos, mayor of Campinas, Brazil is assassinated. September 11 – 2,977 victims are killed in the September 11 attacks at the World Trade Center in New York City, New York, The Pentagon in Arlington County, Virginia, and in rural Shanksville, Pennsylvania after American Airlines Flight 11 and United Airlines Flight 175 are hijacked and crash into the World Trade Center's Twin Towers, American Airlines Flight 77 is hijacked and crashes into the Pentagon, and United Airlines Flight 93 is hijacked and crashes into grassland in Shanksville, due to the passengers fighting to regain control of the airplane. The World Trade Center towers collapse as a result of the crashes. September 19 – Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat forbids Palestinian soldiers from firing on Israeli forces, even in self-defence. Israel agrees to a ceasefire. September 20 – In an address to a joint session of Congress and the American people, U.S. President George W. Bush declares a "War on Terror". October October 1 – Militants attack the state legislature building in Srinagar, Kashmir, killing 38. October 4 – 2001 Kodori crisis: Fighting escalates between Georgia and the breakaway