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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The September 11, 2001 attacks were the deadliest terrorist attack to ever occur in the United States. Members of the al-Qaeda terrorist network hijacked four commercial airplanes and crashed two of them into the twin towers of the World Trade Center in New York City, one into the Pentagon building near Washington, D.C and the fourth plane crashed near Pittsburgh. Much of the World Trade Center complex was destroyed as well as the southwest side of the Pentagon. The attacks caused a high number of fatalities: 2,750 people were killed in New York, 184 at the Pentagon, and 40 in Pennsylvania; all 19 terrorists died.
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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