Last September marked the tenth anniversary of the most momentous and audacious terrorist attacks on the West. At the time of the attacks on 11 September 2001, US President George W. Bush declared that from that day the USA was waging ‘a war on terrorism’ against Al Qaeda and its leader Osama Bin Laden.
Many of you will be familiar with the television imagery of 9/11: the two planes crashing into the Twin Towers in Manhattan, changing the signature skyscape of the city in a matter of hours; the plane crash into the Pentagon, heart of the US military and security forces; and the plane crash into a field near Shanksville, Pennsylvania, which was possibly meant for the White House. Almost 3,000 people were murdered in these attacks, 67 of whom were British, and countless thousands still carry the wounds of injury, bereavement and grief.
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