The lessons of Osama bin Laden’s viral “Letter to America”
TikTok and other social media platforms allow distorted narratives to proliferate.
BySeptember 11 attacks
The terrorist attacks on 11 September, 2001, were the deadliest to occur in the United States. Members of al-Qaeda hijacked four commercial aeroplanes; they crashed two of them into the twin towers of the World Trade Center in New York City, one into the Pentagon building near Washington DC, and the fourth crashed near Pittsburgh. The death toll was 2,753 in New York, 184 at the Pentagon, and 40 in Pennsylvania; all 19 terrorists died.
The “Five Eyes” spies who fought the West’s secret wars
The intelligence network’s blunders in the Middle East have been disastrous – but it has a vital role in an…
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Mohsin Hamid: “After 9/11, I was treated as a potential terrorist”
The Booker-shortlisted author on race, America and his new novel, The Last White Man.
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Sitting out 9/11 with Blink-182
After 9/11, I sought refuge at the California home of the manager of the band Blink-182. The third world war…
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How 9/11 internet culture created a blueprint for modern conspiracy theories
The 11 September attacks coincided with the rise of the internet. A new strain of online paranoia was born.
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America, 20 years after 9/11
Jeremy Cliffe and Sarah Manavis explore the long shadow of the 11 September attacks.
What do we remember when we remember 9/11?
Our remembrance of 9/11 is about the greatness of America; in the process, it fails Americans.
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A new docuseries captures 9/11 minute by minute
9/11: One Day in America forces the viewer to experience the attacks in painful detail.
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Leader: The long shadow of 9/11
After 20 years of failed interventionism and a humiliation in Afghanistan, Joe Biden's US may have found a role better…
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Iran has been the winner of the Middle East unrest since 9/11 but now Trump is hitting back
Although we should be used to it by now, the sight of a US president casually lobbing around threats of…
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The story of Moira Smith – the only female NYPD officer to perish in the line of duty on 9/11
A comic book artist pays tribute to one of New York City’s heroines.
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Amazon’s 9/11 series, The Looming Tower, has two fantastic performances at its heart
Plus, new Netflix documentary series Flint Town.
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Fifteen years on from 9/11, how the UK bypassed justice to become a counter-terrorism state
The sinister story of legislation in Britain following the New York terrorist attacks.
ByA 9/11 reader
Ten of the best articles on the tenth anniversary of the attack.
ByMehdi Hasan on Question Time, Israel and 9/11
An astonishing claim -- even by his standards -- from Richard Perle.
ByWhat is the lasting legacy of 9/11?
Ten years after the twin towers fell, research indicates that it has not had a lasting effect on people's lives.
ByWe will never forget 9/11. But it has not shaped us
What happened was huge, but the neocons have gone, and the Middle East and the west are not engaged
ByWhere were you on 9/11?
It is an event etched into our collective memory. We asked writers, politicians, and activists to remember where they were…
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Ten years after 9/11, the true threat is not a super-villain skulking in the desert, says Laurie Penny
We have been starved of the meaning and context of global disaster.
ByIn this week’s New Statesman: 9/11 Special Issue
Memories of 9/11 | Adam Kirsch: How America changed | Mehdi Hasan: Fear and the terror industry
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