Saturday marks 20 years since the Sept. 11, 2001, terror attacks shocked the world – and the Taliban control Afghanistan for the first time in just as long.
The group faces thousands of charges for murder, terrorism, and hijacking in connection with the Sept. 11 plot, which killed 2,977 innocent people. More than 2,000 first responders have since died due to 9/11-related illnesses. Tens of thousands of survivors and responders were exposed to hazardous debris.
The ensuing war in Afghanistan also claimed the lives of 2,325 U.S. service members, impacting exponentially more people back home."The 9/11 attacks have so much ripple tragedy inherited through a generation now to follow the families that survived," said Asra Nomani, an author, activist, and former Wall Street Journal reporter."And we have to remember that justice still has to be served.
When Mohammed and his alleged accomplices entered a pretrial hearing Tuesday, their first court appearance in more than 500 days, they were seenThe quintet have been held at Guantanamo Bay since September 2006 after several years in clandestine CIA detention facilities following their capture. FILE - In this April 15, 2007, file photo, Dr. Judea Pearl, father of American journalist Daniel Pearl, who was killed by terrorists in 2002, speaks in Miami Beach, Fla. Pakistan's Supreme Court on Thursday, Jan. 28, 2021, ordered the release of Ahmad Saeed Omar Sheikh who was convicted and later acquitted in the gruesome beheading of American journalist Pearl in 2002. The court also dismissed an appeal of Sheikh's acquittal by Pearl's family.
In Afghanistan over the past several weeks, the Taliban pushed a propaganda charm campaign, presenting itself as more moderate and tolerant – but current and former U.S. officials, human rights activists, and refugees are worried their return to power will also mark a revival of their severe mistreatment of women.
However – militarily and through diplomacy and intelligence – he said the U.S. is more prepared to thwart the next attack than it was 20 years ago."We are more safe and more secure today than we were on 9/11," he said."We are much better at counterterrorism than we were before. Our military is much better at finding and fixing and finishing bad guys on the battlefield."
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