September 11 Attack
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September 11, 2001 - Terrorism Reaches The United States With Deadly Consequences
On September 11, 2001 four airliners where hijacked by terrorists and used as weapons to attack the United States. Two of the hijacked aircraft where flown by the terrorists into the "Twin Towers" of the World Trade Center in Manhattan. One was flown into the Pentagon, and the last aircraft crashed before it could reach its intended target. The devastation caused by the attack was unheard of and completely unexpected. Two thousand nine hundred a Read More... -
Lucky Escapes From Terrorist Attacks
I have met many people over the last number of years in my business line of work, stammering tuition, and have heard a couple of remarkable stories of how they narrowly avoided a terrorist attack. The first was a man who was in New York at the time of the attack on the twin towers. He and his friends from England had been in New York for around a week and were due to fly back home on September 11th. On the tenth of September they decided to go t Read More... -
Resolve
While I hate to deconstruct the events of 9-11 down to an impersonal, economic level, the fact is, it's inevitable. For the events of 9-11 were in large part an attack not just on America and her people, but also on democracy and world capitalism. For the World Trade Center was the global symbol for free enterprise. Even though the attack scored a palpable hit...in the end, the terrorist attack on American soil failed. In the five years since t Read More...
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