WASHINGTON: Insight is often found in moments we don’t anticipate. The tenth anniversary of 9/11 has occasioned volumes of commentary and analysis, searching for meaning about that terrible day and the ten years of war and conflict that have followed. But the most compelling idea that I have yet found came out of an unexpected [...]
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Brighton-based Lloyd’s 3500 syndicate from England is suing Saudi Arabia over the 9/11 attacks on the United States. The lawsuit claims the kingdom funded al-Qaeda and is thus, partially responsible for the deaths of over 3,000 people. The Lloyd’s 3500 syndicate is demanding the repayment of nearly $300 million it was forced to pay out [...]
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One of the world’s most gruelling bicycle races started today from the capital of Timor-Leste, bringing together 450 participants, including 15 United Nations staff, who are taking on a 6-day, 500-kilometer-long challenge across the country’s unforgiving terrain. The Tour de Timor, a unique event for peace hosted by President José Ramos-Horta and the Timorese Government, [...]
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We know now that the Reichstaag was burned by the Nazis. We know now many things in history that were not known to the people who lived through the events. One day, and it may be soon, the truth about 11 September 2001 will start to appear. Cracks have already opened.
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A decade later, the events and aftermath of September 11th, 2001 continue to define life and policy in our world just as they did in the months immediately following those attacks. The influence isn’t as bluntly obvious as it was then, nor the wounds as raw, but the fact that we live in a “post [...]
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SIMI VALLEY: Instead of promoting fear on the 10th anniversary of 9/11, the organization Unity in Spiritual Community of Simi Valley, California, is launching the first Spiritual Expo Simi Valley on Sunday, September 11, to spread the message of unity. In collaboration with the global movement of One The Event in Seattle, Washington, the Spiritual [...]
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The United Nations today marked the 10th anniversary of the 11 September 2001 terrorist attacks on the United States with a solemn commemoration in the General Assembly Hall, music, poetry and a vow to intensify the battle against terror wherever it is perpetrated in the world. “11 September will mark our collective memory forever. We [...]
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AMMAN: Over the past ten years, much has been written in an attempt to make sense of what happened on 11 September 2001. It is a difficult task. Analysing evil is not easy. Terror makes no sense to the rational mind. All that seems clear is that, for millions of Americans and the world at [...]
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CAIRO: Even ten years later, the memory of the 9/11 attacks is still present. While the terrorists achieved the physical destruction they set out to create, they failed to accomplish their goal of inciting all-out hatred between Muslims and the West. As such, on this 10th anniversary of 9/11, the most fitting legacy would be [...]
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WASHINGTON: Ten years after the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, a major national survey finds America continuing to struggle with what it means to be American and wrestling with how to resolve political, religious and ethnic differences in an increasingly diverse country. Americans believe they are safer, but that they have less personal freedom [...]
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BLOOMINGTON, Indiana: If we were to go solely by newspaper headlines and broadcast media reports, a decade after September 11, 2001, we would have to conclude that the world has become overwhelmingly crisis-ridden and that some things got worse when we thought they could not possibly get worse. Religiously inspired militants continued to plot terror [...]
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VIRGINIA BEACH, Virginia: Human history has been written in blood and tears. The terrorist attack on September 11 was simply one more act in a long running play: they kill us, we kill them. Repeat. This is the eternally-contemporary drama of human interaction since the time of Cain and Abel. It is said that one [...]
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CAIRO: An Egyptian politician and leading official of the al-Wafd party has called the Holocaust a “lie,” the Diary of Anne Frank “fake” and the September 11 attacks “made in the USA.” Speaking in an interview with The Washington Times, the Wafd foreign policy chief Ahmed Ezz el-Arab lashed out at a number of internationally [...]
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WASHINGTON, DC: This year, on the ninth anniversary of the 11 September attacks, many Americans were scared that violence would ensue as a result of a planned Qur’an burning and the controversy over an Islamic cultural center, Park51, in lower Manhattan. Thankfully, the day came and went with no major eruptions of hostility. The day [...]
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MAPLEWOOD, New Jersey: Every year Eid ul-Fitr, the celebration marking the end of Ramadan, happens on a different day, approximately 11 days earlier than the year before. This year, it arrived last Thursday in some parts of the world, but most of us celebrated on Friday, depending on which night the new moon was sighted [...]
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An outcry from Muslim communities around the world greeted Florida Pastor Terry Jones’ announcement that he would commemorate the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks by burning copies of the Quran. The outrage was matched only by those who staunchly oppose the building of an Islamic cultural center near ground zero in New York City. President [...]
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NEW YORK: It was September 2002, one year after the 11 September attacks. I was boarding a flight from Cairo to New York to start my new life in the United States. Twelve hours later, we landed at JFK airport. Half-asleep, standing in line at the immigration booths, I suddenly heard the adhan, the Islamic [...]
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