Closing the week 36 – The Remains of That Day 9/11
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Featuring The Remains of that Day: 9/11
Memory and relics
Daniel Silliman: 9/11 relics
Religion, Peter Berger once said, is the audacious proposal that human activities are cosmically meaningful.
In this sense, some of the remembrances and relics of 9/11 are deeply religious. Curiously so.
Memories of 9/11 tragedy preserved – Philly.com
“What you find at most archaeological sites, ancient and modern, are things that are mundane, a part of daily life, so that is our mission here,” said Kate Quinn, the Penn Museum’s director of exhibitions.
Quinn said the September 11 museum lent Penn things that fulfill that goal of everyday items transformed – eyeglasses, a computer keyboard, visitor badges – that were unearthed during the excavations at ground zero.
“Archaeology usually tells us something about ancient times, but this is history, too, even if it is only 10 years old,” Quinn said.
I knew I had to do it eventually, and I had to do it by today. When I saw that the VAMP theme for August was “Alternate Endings,” I knew exactly what to do. I wrote it in two hours; it exploded out of me. I’m sure it could be honed here and there, but I like the raw weirdness of it. What follows are my remarks as prepared for delivery. In the video, the last word is “possibility,” and I swallowed it for some reason. Also, I apologize for the sound quality; I don’t really know what I’m doing. Anyway:
Through the fragments of 9/11 » Knoxville News Sentinel
After the collapse of the south tower of the World Trade Center in New York, the first of the wounded, including four members of the New York City Medical Examiners Office, with Amy Mundorff, second from left, are brought via boat across the Hudson River to a triage area in Jersey City, N.J., September 11, 2001. Mundorff now teaches forensic anthropology at the University of Tennessee. (Chip East / Special to the News Sentinel)
The September 11th Industry | homophilosophicus
In the face of such horror however, a great hope was born on the streets ofManhattanten years ago today. On the television and on the radio inAmericaand around the world, millions witnessed the beautiful transformation of apparently cold New Yorkers into heroes and martyrs. Women and men in workaday suits and uniforms walked, often to certain death, into grave danger to reach the hands of other human beings whom they had never before met. In the sudden depths of catastrophe ordinary people took it upon themselves to become extraordinary. For all of our perceptions of the Big Apple as a cruel and hard place, it was the everyday New Yorker who reminded us that we are human. For all of the loss and the fear and the despair, there was a flash of something truly brilliant from the rubble and dust that day.
Reflecting on 9/11: Humanizing war
When I chose to enlist, I didn’t feel any great patriotic call. Our integrity as a nation never depended on me killing people in other countries. I didn’t have any college prospects—my GPA was a 1.17—and I didn’t want to end up as another pothead or meth-head in the rust belt. I wanted to blow shit up and kill people. Nobody in specific, no ethnic prejudice or anything stupid like that, I just wanted to shoot endless bad guys wearing the same clothes as each other, like in Goldeneye. Maybe pick up their ammo when I ran low.
‘A deeper meaning’: How 9/11 changed one Vermonter – for good: Rutland Herald Online
Ten years later, Michael realizes the eyewitness details he remembers were only the start of a larger story.
Column: Forgetting 9/11 Would Be a Tragedy – Long Valley, NJ Patch
Every person in this nation has differing opinions on the course of action America took in years following the deadliest attack on U.S. soil, but Sept. 11, 2001, in my opinion, is a day that cannot be forgotten.
9/11: Are We All Moral Monsters?
9/11 reveals often-hidden facts in our own anthropology: that we are all 9/11-enabled human beings, and we are all scared of our own mortality.
Marking the Tenth Anniversary of 9/11 : The New Yorker
For those in the immediate vicinity, the horror was of course immediate and unmistakable; it occurred in what we have learned to call real time, and in real space. For those farther away—whether a few dozen blocks or halfway around the world—who were made witnesses by the long lens of television, the events were seen as through a glass, brightly. Their reality was visible but not palpable. It took hours to begin to comprehend their magnitude; it is taking days for the defensive numbness they induced to wear off; it will take months—or years—to measure their impact and meaning.
The meaning of 9/11’s most controversial photo | Jonathan Jones | Comment is free | guardian.co.uk
http://static.guim.co.uk/sys-images/Guardian/Pix/pictures/2011/9/2/1314964814888/Young-people-chat-as-the–005.jpg In the photograph Thomas Hoepker took on 11 September 2001, a group of New Yorkers sit chatting in the sun in a park in Brooklyn. Behind them, across brilliant blue water, in an azure sky, a terrible cloud of smoke and dust rises above lower Manhattan from the place where two towers were struck by hijacked airliners this same morning and have collapsed, killing, by fire, smoke, falling or jumping or crushing and tearing and fragmentation in the buildings’ final fall, nearly 3,000 people.
Museum Anthropology: 9/11 Museum Human Remains Controversy
The brewing controversy over the unidentified human remains at the new 9/11 Museum has hit the news. Full disclosure, Dr. Chip has been involved with some of the grass-roots advocacy groups. We believe this is an important issue for all museum anthropologists, as it creates an important dialogue that asks about how the profession treats all human remains in the museum context, the intersection of memorials and museums, the nature and process of consultation, and how we might respond should another attack of such a magnitude come.
An Anthropological Preview of the Post-9/11 World « ZERO ANTHROPOLOGY
Imagine this scenario for 2002 – science fiction a short while ago, exceedingly likely now. The world had entered the paranoid phase of globalisation. Countries were neither at war nor not at war. Detailed surveillance of citizens and quixotic imprisonment of individuals became commonplace. Politicians eagerly elaborated on the imminent threat of terrorist attacks, thereby justifying ever more draconian measures. Radical humanist networks and human rights groups were ostracised for their lack of loyalty and structural similarities to terrorist groups. Yet everybody, including the politicians, knew in their heart of hearts that turning the citizenry into potential enemies would only aggravate the problem.
In the aftermath of a disaster, calls for the replacement, replication and reproduction of that which has been lost represent a yearning for a return to normal. Yet a full return to any pre-disaster “normal” is impossible as the physical and emotional rupture of tragedy transforms everything and everybody. That which has been lost is irreplaceable, even if what may appear to be the original form is rebuilt. There is no unadulterated replacement, only re/placement. To break down this word:
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Social scientists on 9/11 and its aftermath
10 Years Later: Islam in the U.S. – YouTube
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ELKoWgKeSQo
Robert Hefner, professor of anthropology and director of the Institute on Culture, Religion, and World Affairs (CURA) at Boston University, discusses the state of Islam and Muslim society in the U.S. since the September 11th terrorist attacks.
Shaped by 9/11: UMBC Researchers Reflect – YouTube
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4VsXOjXJ7Nk
The events of September 11, 2001 changed course of history. To some faculty at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County (UMBC), particularly those early in their careers, they also changed the course of their life’s work. The attacks and subsequent wars in Iraq and Afghanistan led them to study new issues and respond to new needs. This video includes reflections from Dr. Rebecca Adelman, who examines imagery of the War on Terror, and Dr. Seth Messinger, who works with veterans recovering from limb loss.
Because the Sept. 11 attacks happened on U.S. soil, it makes sense that they might have had a more profound impact in the United States than in Western Europe.
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But the location of the attacks isn’t the only reason for that, says John R. Bowen, PhD, an anthropology and religious studies professor, both in Arts & Sciences, at Washington University in St. Louis, who has spent the past 10 years studying Islam and civil law in France and England.
Key differences in how Muslims were perceived before 9/11 in the United States and Western Europe played a key role in how much — or how little — attitudes on Muslims changed after 9/11, Bowen says.
“After 9/11, many in the United States came to fear American Muslims for the first time; most knew nothing about Islam,” says Bowen, PhD, the Dunbar-Van Cleve Professor in Arts & Sciences. “But fear of Muslims already was present in parts of Europe.”
Al-Qaeda Is Winning – Daveed Gartenstein-Ross – International – The Atlantic
A decade after the attacks of September 11, 2001, national security opinion leaders are converging around the ideas that the threat of terrorism has been substantially reduced over the past 10 years, and that al-Qaeda is on its death bed. “Al-Qaeda is sort of on the ropes and taking a lot of shots to the body and the head,” White House counterterrorism chief John Brennan told the Associated Press on August 31. Defense secretary Leon Panetta said in July that the United States is “within reach” of “strategically defeating” the jihadi group, and the Washington Post has confirmed that his assessment is shared by many analysts. Commentators in the public sphere are increasingly adopting similar views. But my own research into the group has led me in a different direction: that this emerging consensus doesn’t just appear wrong, but obviously wrong. Al-Qaeda isn’t anywhere near defeated — for all our triumphalism, it appears to be winning.
10 Years Later: How We Won – William McCants & William Rosenau – International – The Atlantic
Ten years into our struggle against al-Qaeda, it’s time to acknowledge that the “war” is over and recognize that the United States and its international partners overreacted to the al-Qaeda threat. Terrorism, after all, is designed to elicit such overreactions. But the confluence of the recent death of bin Laden, harsh new economic realities, the democratic movements in the Middle East, and the ten-year anniversary of the September 11 attacks provide an ideal time to take stock of what it actually takes to deal with the al-Qaeda threat.
Some of my favorite thinkers have diametrically opposing pieces in The Atlantic today. Will McCants and William Rosenau write about How We Won the War on Terror, while Daveed Gartenstein-Ross writes that Al Qaeda is Winning.
Why Is The Middle East Still In Thrall To 9/11 Conspiracy Theories? | The New Republic
The 9/11 attacks catalyzed a tremendous shift in American foreign policy in the Middle East. Rather than prioritizing petrol, Washington targeted terrorist organizations, dethroned a dictator, and lobbied throughout the region for liberalization. Yet despite the billions of dollars spent policing Baghdad and protecting Benghazi, the unpopularity of the United States in the Arab world continues to be fueled by the belief that Islamist terrorists had nothing to do with 9/11, with many claiming the attacks were an American, Israeli, or joint American-Israeli conspiracy. In this sense, overcoming 9/11 revisionism is, perhaps, the greatest challenge facing American public diplomacy in the coming decade: So long as such conspiracy theories persist, Arabs will continue to view American policies aimed at preventing “another 9/11” as thoroughly illegitimate since, as they see it, 9/11 is just a big American lie.
Ten Years after 9/11, Do the Arabs value Democracy more than We do? | Informed Comment
The September 11 attacks have been revealed as a last gasp of a fading, cult-like twentieth-century vision, not as the wave of the future. They were the equivalent of the frenetic dashing to and fro of a chicken already beheaded. Al-Qaeda’s core assumptions have been refuted by subsequent events and above all in 2011 by the Arab Spring.
9/11: more security, less secure | openDemocracy
The world has been changed by the securitisation of everyday life and the Islamisation of security. The accompanying threat-complex has shifted American sensibilities, says Cas Mudde.
The roots of conflict | Education | The Guardian
Is western culture better than any other? Umberto Eco argues that what is important is not superiority but pluralism and toleration
My initial inclination was to wonder if this was a gag, or, having written several critiques of the Human Terrain Systems program describing why it is an ethical and practical anthropological disaster, whether someone was setting me up. While I’ve had several other Human Terrain social scientists write me with complaints about the program, it didn’t seem likely that Human Terrain Systems (HTS) would hire someone with John’s politically progressive views. But the email address was the same one John had used for years, and John’s story checked out and made sense, so I approached our correspondence along the lines of his initial request to help him organize his focus and to understand critiques of HTS. As he undertook his HTS training, we corresponded and I passed along articles, and offered friendship and critiques of what he was learning in this training; not that John needed help with this critique, the flaws in the program were pretty obvious to him.
David H. Price: Anthropology’s Military Shadow | The New Significance
Just as it was becoming passe to remark on anthropology’s status as colonialism’s wanton stepchild, George Bush’s Terror War rediscovered old militarized uses for culture, and invigorated new modernist dreams of harnessing anthropology and culture for the domination of others. Because I began in the early 1990s using the Freedom of Information Act, interviews, and archival research to document American anthropologists’ interactions with military and intelligence agencies, by the time the post-9/11 push by the Pentagon and CIA to again use anthropological knowledge as tools for intelligence, warfare and counterinsurgency, I had a decent head start on documenting and thinking about some of this history. By the time America got its terror war on, I had already documented the details of how this worked in the past, and had thought about the core of the ethical, political and theoretical fundamentals of a critical approach to questions relating to the weaponization of anthropology.
Wiley: Anthropology, History & Sociology
In the 10 years since the events of September 2001 a vast amount of scholarly research has been written on the impact of 9/11. We are pleased to share with you this collection of free book and journal content from the Anthropology, History & Sociology books and journals published by Wiley-Blackwell.
In the 10 years since the events of September 2001 a vast amount of scholarly research has been written on the impact of 9/11. We are pleased to share with you this collection of free book and journal content from the Religion & Theology books and journals published by Wiley-Blackwell.
The paradoxes of the re-Islamization of Muslim societies « The Immanent Frame
The 9/11 debate was centered on a single issue: Islam. Osama Bin Laden was taken at his own words by the West: Al-Qaeda, even if its methods were supposedly not approved by most Muslims, was seen as the vanguard or at least a symptom of “Muslim wrath” against the West, fueled by the fate of the Palestinians and by Western encroachments in the Middle East; and if this wrath, which has pervaded the contemporary history of the Middle East, has been cast in Islamic terms, it is because Islam is allegedly the main, if not the only, reference that has shaped Muslim minds and societies since the Prophet. This vertical genealogy obscured all the transversal connections (the fact, for instance, that Al-Qaeda systematized a concept of terrorism that was first developed by the Western European ultra-left of the seventies or the fact that most Al-Qaeda terrorists do not come from traditional Muslim societies but are recruited from among global, uprooted youth, with a huge proportion of converts).
10 Years After September 11, a digital collection recently launched by the Social Science Research Council. In the days immediately following 9/11/01, the Council invited a wide range of leading social scientists to write short essays for an online forum. Ten years later, these same contributors have been asked to reflect on what has changed and what remains the same. The result is an extraordinary collection of new essays, with contributions from Rajeev Bhargava, Mary Kaldor, David Held, Olivier Roy, Saskia Sassen, Veena Das, Richard Falk, and many others.—ed.
9/11 chronomania « The Immanent Frame
This post sketches out some of the ways the events of 9/11 altered time-consciousness and temporal rhetoric in the public sphere and follows how the attacks continue to frame the subjective experience of temporality. Beginning with the lexicon of the war on terror—with its temporally overdertemined rhetoric of “the homeland,” “preemption,” “fundamentalism,” and, of course, the name-date “9/11” itself—I consider a few cases of what I call 9/11 chronomania—the obsession with time and temporal disruption that characterizes representations of 9/11 across a variety of media forms. In the case of the 9/11 Commission Report, by refashioning disaster as chronology, the narrative aims to replace victims with knowers—first, by establishing an authorial subject in command of its perceptual, technological, and temporal fields, and second, by attempting to shape personal and collective understandings of 9/11 by securing events unfolding in multiple locations and witnessed in myriad ways on a single, immanent timeline. The goals of such a narrative are clear: the chronometric novella that begins the 9/11 Commission Report is in part a hook designed to catch a national audience primed by thrillers like the television series 24, but it is also an attempt to incrementalize and disaggregate horrific events into an easily understood linear plot as part of a self-professed attempt to salve the wounds of collective trauma.
Accounts of everyday life and politics
Aftershock and awe – Haaretz Daily Newspaper | Israel News
Usama Hasan, a devout Muslim of Pakistani origin , who grew up in Britain and was known to be active in radical circles, was at work in his Oxfordshire office on the day of the attacks on the World Trade Center.
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Hicham Yezza, an Algerian Muslim who came to England on a scholarship to study computing and management, was at home in Nottingham, getting ready to go to class.
British Muslims tell the terrorists they ‘failed’ on the tenth anniversary of 9/11
More than 50 Muslim community groups the length and breadth of Britain have united on the tenth anniversary of 9/11 to express their solidarity with victims of terrorism and to tell the terrorists that a decade on ‘they failed’ in seeking to divide society on religious grounds.
We have more Muslim MPs than ever. But there is a growing belief that dissent risks falling foul of terror laws
After 9/11: ‘You no longer have rights’ – extract | World news | The Guardian
What was it like for immigrant Muslims and Arab-Americans in the wake of 9/11? Ten years on, three people tell their stories
9/11 is No Excuse for Bashing Muslims – OtherWords
Violent jihadists don’t represent Islam any more than the Anders Breiviks of the world represent Christianity.
Book explores ‘Arab Detroit’ in decade since 9/11 | Detroit Free Press | freep.com
A book has been published that examines life in the Detroit area’s Arab-American community in the decade since the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks.
“Arab Detroit 9/11: Life in the Terror Decade” was released this past week and is published by Wayne State University Press. The book incorporates academic, artistic and everyday voices and viewpoints from one of the most well-known and largest communities of Arabs outside the Middle East.
The 9/11 Decade – How Interfaith Groups Built Bridges – NYTimes.com
Jews, Christians, Muslims come together, hoping to fight fear with familiarity. How it’s playing out in Syracuse.
Conversations with New Yorkers – The 9/11 Decade – Al Jazeera English
Al Jazeera speaks to people in New York about the 9/11 attack on their city and the events that followed.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y155rP6iTYo
Living with 9/11: the Muslim American | World news | The Guardian
Linda Sarsour lives in Brooklyn and is from a Palestinian American family. She has become increasingly involved in community activism since the September 11 attacks
Sept. 11 was just the start of family always being around. Casey remembers getting off the bus that day and being so confused because there were so many cars in her driveway. She said her mom told her they were having a party because it was the first week of school and they wanted to celebrate because they have to get back into their daily routines.
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The criminalization of speech since 9/11 – War Room – Salon.com
The expanded use of the material-support law is an important part of the legacy of 9/11 and the legal regime erected in response to the attacks. To learn more about the history and use of the material-support statute, I spoke with Hina Shamsi, the director of the National Security Project at the American Civil Liberties Union.
Mahmood Mamdani: Good Muslim, Bad Muslim (Part 1) – YouTube
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w20DhY1O2j8
The HISTORY NEWS NETWORK (http://hnn.us) recorded this appearance of Mahmood Mamdani, Professor of Government and Professor of Anthropology Columbia University, at the annual meeting of the American Historical Association on January 6, 2007. He spoke as the guest of the Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations. The speech took place over lunch at Atlanta’s famous Pittypat’s Porch.
A US Soldier’s Experience in Iraq on 9/11 | Savage Minds
Here is a second interview with my friend serving his second term in Baghdad. We talk about his ‘cultural training’ exercises, Bradley Manning, and his engagement with the local Iraqis.
What was Osama bin-Laden for Muslims? | Islam, Muslims, and an Anthropologist
Yet what was bin-Laden for Muslims? This question is more difficult to answer than the previous one. First, I think we have to look at how western commentators, politicians, and of course the general public imagined what bin-Laden was for Muslims. Indeed, this is even more important than the former question since such perceptions have shaped how many people living in western countries saw and see Muslims. You only need to ask around in any European or US city and you will find people whom are strongly convinced that Muslims adore bin-Laden.
The Missing Martyrs — By Charles Kurzman — Book Review – NYTimes.com
In “The Missing Martyrs,” Charles Kurzman suggests that even before Osama bin Laden was killed, his movement had failed utterly. Al Qaeda’s ideological trademark is to exhort ordinary Muslims to engage in individual acts of violence against those deemed enemies of Islam, specifically Americans, Jews and the infidel rulers of Muslim-majority states. And yet very few such attacks have occurred in the United States since Sept. 11, and certainly none comparable to the devastating events of that day. To emphasize just how surprising this is, Kurzman cites a 2006 online manual for aspiring jihadists that lists 14 “simple tools” that “are easy to use and available for anyone who wants to fight the occupying enemy” — they include “running over someone with a car” and “setting fire to homes or rooms at sleep time.” Kurzman, a sociologist who has written widely about Islamic reform movements, asks: “If terrorist methods are as widely available as automobiles, why are there so few Islamist terrorists? In light of the death and devastation that terrorists have wrought, the question may seem absurd. But if there are more than a billion Muslims in the world, many of whom supposedly hate the West and desire martyrdom, why don’t we see terrorist attacks everywhere, every day?”
Al-Qaeda’s Past and Present « jihadica
The newest issue of Foreign Affairs on the ten-year anniversary of 9/11 includes an essay by me (free registration required) on the history of al-Qaeda and its prospects after the Arab Spring. The essay covers the reasons for al-Qaeda’s founding, its targeting of the United States, its strategic thinking under Zawahiri’s leadership, its concept of an Islamic state, and its enduring problem with Islamist parliamentary politics.
After the Massacre, Norway Reexamines Its Values and Fears – The Daily Beast
In the wake of a devastating massacre, Norway reexamines its values—and its fears.
Slow attempts at making sense: Oslo 22/7
This research diary has until now exclusively treated the various facets of my PhD research project in Paris. When the numbness began to lose its grip, I started to realise why I feel so terribly concerned. Of course, I think most Norwegians, many Europeans and even many, many fellow world citizens feel deep concern when an atrocity like this strikes, even when they or their closest aren’t struck personally. This concerns us as fellow humans (of both the victims and the perpetrator…), and it concerns us as political beings. But I also realised that this concerns me profoundly in terms of the career I’ve chosen: What good is it to devote my professional life to understanding nationalism, belonging, community cohesion, conceptions of difference and the like when I have done nothing to prevent the worst thinkable acts of violence to take place in my own country? Especially since I think – or I’m sure – that I’ve felt there was a need for worry (but of course, not to this unconceivable degree…). For several days now I’ve been thinking about how I can contribute. How can I contribute in the best way with my knowledge (of living with difference in Europe), my concern (for the future of us all) and my devotion (to work for a better world)? I know need to think much more about this in the coming days and weeks, and I know that I need to act.
Jihadi Suicide Bombers: The New Wave by Ahmed Rashid | The New York Review of Books
After September 11, 2001, readers around the world quickly learned about the basic tenets of jihad and its distortion by al-Qaeda. Now the shelves of Western bookshops are again filled with books on the subject, which gives no sign of going away. Jihad, which means struggle, is “recommended” rather than obligatory for all Muslims, but its interpretation is literally an open book—the lesser jihad to purify one’s soul and perform good deeds for the community, the greater jihad to defend Islam when it is under attack. Each major collection of Hadith, or the sayings of the Prophet Muhammad that were compiled by several Muslim scholars well after the Prophet’s death, contains its own descriptions of jihad, with the result that the discussion of jihad has always been a matter of differing interpretations rather than literal observance.
An ACLU report release to coincide with the 10th anniversary of 9/11 warns that a decade after the attacks, the United States is at risk of enshrining a permanent state of emergency in which core values must be subordinated to ever-expanding claims of national security. (More on Civil Liberties After 9/11 »)
Binary stereotypes silence Muslim women in post 9/11 America, but little has been written about how Muslim women’s leadership can enable voice. This article presents two leadership models based on the philosophy of ijtih?d (independent reasoning), which facilitate self-worth and solidarity, key elements of voice. The less visible spiritual colleague model, which has a followership of practising Muslim women, facilitates self-worth through ijtih?d, allowing women to seek self-definition through their own interpretation of the Qur’?n. As strategy, the leader converts her home into a space which is simultaneously sacred and political where such informal discussions take place around religious rituals. The public bridge-builder model creates solidarity between and among its following of practising and nonpractising Muslims and non-Muslim men and women. The strategy focuses on effective dialogue between different groups. Ijtih?d as discourse in pursuit of knowledge (‘ilm) creates equality and respect, the basis of sustainable alliances.
Anwar Al-Awlaki’s Links to the September 11 Hijackers – J.M. Berger – International – The Atlantic
In the timeline of the hijackers’ movements in the months before the attacks, New Mexico-born Awlaki and his followers seem to turn up nearly every step of the way
Zakaria: Why America Overreacted to 9/11 – The Daily Beast
Nine years after 9/11, can anyone doubt that Al Qaeda is simply not that deadly a threat? Since that gruesome day in 2001, once governments everywhere began serious countermeasures, Osama bin Laden’s terror network has been unable to launch a single major attack on high-value targets in the United States and Europe. While it has inspired a few much smaller attacks by local jihadis, it has been unable to execute a single one itself. Today, Al Qaeda’s best hope is to find a troubled young man who has been radicalized over the Internet, and teach him to stuff his underwear with explosives.
Yet there is much to praise in these volumes. One captures the grief and loss of the period with uncommon intimacy. One captures the disillusion of the decade with unusual anger. And the third retells those events with unbridled drama. None of these three – or the scores of other commemoratives, perhaps the only growth industry in publishing right now – is in itself a one-volume work that captures this period of pathos and personal powerlessness.
Thoughts on 9-11: On the Importance of Intolerance | Reuters
She was a producer who lived in downtown Manhattan and upon hearing the first collision had run up the stairs of an apartment building across from the towers and banged on doors until someone fleeing the building let her in to watch from their windows.
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NOS Nieuws – Moslim-jongeren praten over gevolgen 9/11
Praten over de gevolgen van de aanslagen van 11 september in Amerika voor Nederland. Dat gebeurde gisteravond in Amsterdam door moslim-jongeren. Maar ze kwamen vooral voor de mening van een bijzondere gast, merkte verslaggever Rienk Kamer.
Fotozondag: Tien jaar geleden | DeJaap
Tien jaar geleden is het vandaag, dat twee vliegtuigen zich kort na elkaar in de Twin Towers van het World Trade Center in New York City boorden. Een derde vliegtuig raakte het Pentagon en een vierde stortte neer in Pennsylvania. Bij deze terroristische aanslagen kwamen 2974 mensen om het leven. Onder hen 328 brandweermannen en 62 politiemensen die direct na de eerste inslag op zoek gingen naar slachtoffers.