9/11 Attacks

9/11 memorial unveiled in New Jersey to honour victims, heroes of attack

The solemn ceremony, was attended by over 350 people, including local officials, state senators, assembly members, and first responders

9/11 plotters agree to plead guilty 20 yrs after Twin Tower attack in US

Khalid Shaikh Mohammed and two of his alleged accomplices, Walid bin Attash and Mustafa al-Hawsawi, have agreed to plead guilty to conspiracy and murder charges

Al-Qaeda's primary plotter of 9/11 attacks agrees to plead guilty

Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, accused as the main plotter in al-Qaeda's September 11, 2001, attacks on the United States, has agreed to plead guilty, the Defense Department said, pointing to a long-delayed resolution in an attack that altered the course of the United States and much of the Middle East. He and two accomplices, Walid Bin Attash and Mustafa al-Hawsawi, are expected to enter the pleas at the military commission at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, as soon as next week. Pentagon officials declined to immediately release the terms of the plea bargain. The New York Times, citing unidentified Pentagon officials, said the terms included the men's longstanding condition that they be spared risk of the death penalty. The US agreement with the men to enter into a plea agreement comes more than 16 years after their prosecution began for al-Qaeda's attack. It comes more than 20 years after militants flew commandeered commercial airliners into buildings. The attack killed nearly 3,000 people and ..

Marking 9/11 attacks, Joe Biden says world is safer with US leadership

Biden spoke about his visits to the other sites. "I join you on this solemn day to renew our sacred vow: never forget," he said

United States marks 22 years since 9/11, from ground zero to Alaska

Americans are looking back on the horror and legacy of 9/11, gathering Monday at memorials, firehouses, city halls and elsewhere to observe the 22nd anniversary of the deadliest terror attack on US soil. Commemorations stretch from the attack sites at New York's World Trade Center, the Pentagon and Shanksville, Pennsylvania to Alaska and beyond. President Joe Biden is due at at a ceremony on a military base in Anchorage. His visit, en route to Washington, DC, from a trip to India and Vietnam, is a reminder that the impact of 9/11 was felt in every corner of the nation, however remote. The hijacked plane attacks claimed nearly 3,000 lives and reshaped American foreign policy and domestic fears. On that day, we were one country, one nation, one people, just like it should be. That was the feeling that everyone came together and did what we could, where we were at, to try to help," said Eddie Ferguson, the fire-rescue chief in Virginia's Goochland County. It's more than 100 miles (

US first lady Jill Biden shares memories of 9/11 as wife, sister, more

When Jill Biden realised that terrorists had attacked America on September 11, 2001, her husband, Joe, wasn't the only loved one whose safety she worried about. Biden recalled being scared to death that her sister Bonny Jacobs, a United Airlines flight attendant, was on one of the four hijacked airplanes that were flown into New York's World Trade Center, the Pentagon and a Pennsylvania field, killing nearly 3,000 people. After learning that her sister was safe at her Pennsylvania home, I went straight to Bonny's house, Biden told The Associated Press on Saturday as she and her sister remembered that day. On Sunday, Jill Biden, now the first lady, will mark the 21st anniversary of the 9/11 attacks by delivering remarks at the Flight 93 National Memorial in Shanksville, Pennsylvania accompanied by Jacobs. The 40 passengers and crew aboard that United Airlines flight fought back against their hijackers, thwarting a feared attack on the US Capitol in Washington. I called Bonny to se

US warns of possible retaliation after killing of Al-Qaeda's al-Zawahiri

In a Worldwide Caution Update, the department said it believed "there is a higher potential for anti-American violence given the death of Ayman al-Zawahiri on July 31, 2022"

Joe Biden frees $7 billion in Afghan assets for relief, 9/11 victims

President Joe Biden signed an order Friday to free $7 billion in Afghan assets now frozen in the US.

'Fortress USA': How 9/11 attacks produced a military industrial juggernaut

The American state has always relied on force combined with the de-personalisation of its victims, writes Clare Corbould.

Al-Qaida chief appears in new video marking 20th anniversary of 9/11 attack

Al-Qaida leader Ayman al-Zawahri appeared in a new video marking the 20th anniversary of the Sept 11, attacks, months after rumours spread that he was dead

September 11 and the debacle of 'nation-building' in Iraq and Afghanistan

Nation-building in Afghanistan and Iraq was the resurrection of a doctrine that should have been buried after Vietnam.

World Trade Center: A selfie stop for some, a cemetery for others

Twenty years after terrorists flew two planes into the World Trade Center, the memorial at ground zero has its own routine, not much different from many city tourist sites.

How 9/11 attack and coronavirus pandemic hit civil aviation industry

In late 2001, after the Twin Towers fell, the aviation industry experienced many of the problems it is seeing now. Airlines bled

On 20th anniversary of 9/11 attacks, America is an unreliable superpower

The US was still riding high in the aftermath of the end of the Cold War in 2000. Today, it is one major power among many.

19 years of 9/11 attacks: Some lesser known facts

The ultimate target of Flight 93 remains one of the biggest mysteries of 9/11

Pakistan PM Imran Khan calls 9/11 mastermind Osama bin Laden a martyr

"I don't think there's a country which supported the war on terror and had to face embarrassment for it. Pakistan was also openly blamed for US' failure in Afghanistan," Khan said

Cash levels jump to highest since 9/11 terrorist attacks: BoFA survey

Fund managers have shunned risk, with equity allocations the lowest since the 2009 financial crisis

The pandemic's other dangers

This crisis is not like those before: There is no obvious villain, whether jihadist terrorists or financiers; and few alive have lived through the last pandemic

Hackers claim to have 'secret' data on 9/11 attacks, seek ransom in Bitcoin

While it is not clear what exact files the group has got access to, it is trying to capitalise on conspiracy theories around the 9/11 attacks

Why al-Qaida is still strong 17 yrs after 9/11 and poised for a resurgence

It was alliances that helped al-Qaida continue to terrorise