It has become one of the most infamous durationion in modern history The terror attacks on 911 took the livesof nearly 3 000 people and it changed the worldon the morning of september the 11th2001 two planes flew into the worldtrade center in new york we believe thata plane has crashed into the world tradecenter hijacked american airlines flight 11 and united airlines flight 175crashed into the north tower south tower silling at least 2750 people it just blew up a big explosion people started running it was just chaos everywhere i saw the plane hit the building i can't say anything people are jumpingout the windows over there jumping outthe windows i guess because they're trying to save them selvesh Tat same day another american airlines flight crashed into the pentagon just outside washington dckilling 187 people a fourth airliner united 93 was also hijacked and was believed to be heading for washington dc too the target the capitol building but it crashed into air Feld in pennsylvania after the passengers and crew tried to regain control the terror group al-Qaeda led by Osama binn laden was quickly identified as being responsible for the attack sotal nearly 3 000 people died the worst terror attack on u.s soil in history America was consumed by grief anger and revenge I can hear you the rest of the world hears you and the people and the people who knocked buildings down will hear all of us soon.
The response by the west led by America
under the presidency of George w bush
marked the start of the so-called war on
terrorr Feedom itself was attacked this morning by a faceless coward and freedom will be defended within just weeks of 9 11 the us bombing of Afghanistan began.
Afghanistan was run by the Taliban who allowed al-Qaeda to grow and operate within the country when the Taliban refused to hand over bin laden the u.s supported by nato forces began a war to oust them and take down al Qaeda .They went in with a very narrow tactical objective to root outum the terrorist leadership that they realized that they couldn't sustain that situation without an investment in nation-building the nation-building part of the exercise ultimately was bought it would become America's longest war tens of thousands of afghans have been killed and many thousand Americans nato troops too in all the united nations estimate that nearly a quarter of a million people have died most of them civilian and it all came to an end for America in 2021 when president joe Biden pulled us troops out of the country Afghanistan swiftly fell back to the Taliban once again terrorists grow and thrive in the security andgovernance vacuumso the way that we've left AfghanistandL doesn't bode well the war in Afghanistan was followed two years later by the invasion of Iraq on the elusive hunt for Saddam Hussein's weapons of mass destruction there began another long war for America no weapons of mass destruction wereo fund Saddam Hussein was toppled and sectarian tensions in the country were stoked all with profound regional implicationsn in 2020 a study estimated the war on terror has led to hundreds of thousands of deaths and around 38 million war refugees and displaced people on May the 2nd 2011 nearly 10 years after 9 11 u.s special forces shot and killed a man in hiding in a house in northwestern Pakistan a decade after 9
11 they'd got him after a firefight, they killed Osama bin laden and took custody of his body the war on terror was also waged at home with the introduction of the patriot act it allowed the u.s government to keep tabs on its citizens tapping phone calls emails and more there hasn't been a major Islamist attack in the u.s since 2001 and that's essentially been the u.s measure of success but if you look at this from a global the perspective you've seen a massive attacks from Bataclan to Christchurch all of which in a way linked back to this not to speak of the continuing and rsing terrorism across Africa and the middle east as the u.s war on terror continued the spotlight shined back on America's behavior it emerged that the CIA was secretly taking suspects to countries on so-called rendition flights where they could torture them the Guantanamobay detention center became a symbol of America's failure to uphold the values it seeks to defend 20 years after 9 11 40 prisoners remain at Guantanamo, most have not been charged none have yet faced trial they include the 911 mastermind Khalid sheik Muhammad of course, 911 had other impacts as well it led to an increase in anti-muslim sentiment across America and beyond in 2017 a survey found that half of u.s Muslims find it more difficult to live in the country since the attacks islamophobia and anti-muslim bigotry predates the tragic events surrounding 9 11 but they were certainly in uh an exasperation in normalization of that bigotry in the immediate aftermath, I think that when we reflect on the last two decades concerning the American Muslimc Community'sportant to note that that experience has largely been a mixed bag, on the one hand,d, we've seen increased integration of Muslim Americans in almost all spheres of law politics and society you know on a different note however we've also seen increased discrimination against Muslim Americans
One other impact of 911 has been air travel it has been transformed to make us safer but with huge implications before the attacks security wasn't as intense and check-in cues were nowhere near as long that has now all changed there are also changes on the planes themselves of pilots now locked beyond heavily reinforce cockpit doors 9 11 has become one of these symbolic moments for America an inflection point in the country's history it was and it remains a moment of deep trauma the long-lasting effects of 911 of the war on ter, nk you know are very visible in many ways I mean Afghanistan again of course wearing the consequences of Iraq which led to isis t went all of which you know also prevented a response to Syria um and the aftermath of Syria in a way.Europereshaped attitudes emboldened a new far-right deepened polarization around this new global fault line and in a way if I were to say the tragic um the outcome of 9 11 is that it succeeded in doing what it wanted to and that is to polarize us in new ways
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