25 years after 9/11 Attacks on the World Trade Center Towers in New York

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Twenty-five years after the September 11 attacks heightened US fears of threats from abroad, Americans are now considerably more worried about attacks by domestic extremists than foreign groups, a Reuters/Ipsos poll found.

The poll also found Americans are split on whether the country is safer than before 9/11. Some 36% said the US is about as safe as it was before the attacks, while 32% said it is safer and 29% said it is less safe.

On September 11, 2001, four planes were hijacked by reported Al-Qaeda members, who crashed them into New York City’s World Trade Center and the Pentagon outside Washington, DC, killing 2,977 people. The attacks sparked decades of violence as part of the US’s so-called “War on Terror”, including US-led invasions of both Afghanistan and Iraq, and related conflicts that killed hundreds of thousands of civilians, as well as many troops.
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It's been 25 years since the 9/11 terror attacks on the United States. On Friday, the nation will remember those lost on that fateful day and take a moment of silence in their memory.

On this quarter-century anniversary of the attacks, the 9/11 Memorial & Museum will add a seventh moment of silence to honor those who have died of illnesses related to their time at or near the World Trade Center site.
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How 9/11 helped Israel sell its war on Palestinians to America

The 'war on terror' made Israeli repression easier to present as part of a shared struggle against a common enemy.

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September 11 and the ensuing global “war on terror” changed all of this. With the second Palestinian Intifada under way, the September 11 attacks on the US provided an opportunity to once again put Israel and the US on the same side of a new defining global divide. Instead of communism, the new global bad guy was radical Islam.

Netanyahu and his allies understood this very well, just as he made clear to The New York Times 25 years ago this week. A wounded America was primed for Islamophobic narratives, and pro-Israel voices were often happy to provide them, as they understood that an America obsessed with “counterterrorism” would have to stay close to Israel.

 

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While the official 9/11 Commission Report found no evidence that top Pakistani state leaders were directly in on the operational planning of the September 11 attacks, Western intelligence, court records, and investigative reports document extensive pre-9/11 institutional support for Al-Qaeda and its infrastructure through Pakistan's intelligence apparatus.


1. The Pre-9/11 Taliban-Al Qaeda Alliance


Before 9/11, Pakistan’s Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) was the primary sponsor of the Taliban regime in Afghanistan.


Joint Operational Footprint: The ISI provided military advisors, intelligence, and financial backing to the Taliban. Because the Taliban granted Osama bin Laden and Al-Qaeda safe haven to set up training camps (like Al-Farooq), Pakistani state support directly sustained the sanctuary where the 9/11 hijackers trained.


Overlapping Infrastructure: Jaish-e-Mohammed (JeM) and Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT), created and nurtured by the ISI for regional operations, shared training grounds, logistical routes, and safe houses in Afghanistan and Pakistan alongside Al-Qaeda operatives.


2. The Omar Sheikh & ISI Financial Wire Transfer


The most direct controversy linking Pakistani intelligence to the 9/11 funding pipeline centers on British-born terrorist Ahmed Omar Saeed Sheikh and ISI Chief Lt. Gen. Mahmood Ahmed.

4. The Institutional Paradox


The consensus among intelligence scholars (such as Steve Coll and Lawrence Wright) points to a state policy of "Plausible Deniability":


Pakistan's military apparatus used Islamist proxy networks as strategic assets.


While the upper echelon of the government may not have ordered the strike on the World Trade Center, the ISI created the exact permissive environment—financial networks, border access, and sanctuary—that allowed Al-Qaeda to plan and execute 9/11.


References:


1. Official Government Reports:


The 9/11 Commission Report (National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States, 2004).


FBI Terrorist Financing Operations Section (TFOS) Transcripts on Mohammed Atta's Funding.


2. Books & Investigative Texts:


Steve Coll (2004) - Ghost Wars: The Secret History of the CIA, Afghanistan, and Bin Laden, from the Soviet Invasion to September 10, 2001.


Lawrence Wright (2006) - The Looming Tower: Al-Qaeda and the Road to 9/11.


Bernard-Henri Lévy (2003) - Who Killed Daniel Pearl? (Detailing Omar Sheikh's ISI connections and financial operations).