9/11
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On September 11, 1941, construction began on the Pentagon. Exactly 60 years later, on September 11, 2001, terrorists targeted the building in one of the deadliest attacks on American soil. The Pentagon: Born in the Shadow of War On 11 September 1941, ground was broken on what would become the world’s largest low-rise office building.…
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Below is a historically grounded overview of major Islamist terrorist attacks in the late 20th and 21st centuries. The list is not exhaustive—there have been hundreds of attacks globally—but it includes many of the most consequential, influential, and widely documented incidents associated with Islamist extremist organizations or ideologies. It is important to distinguish between Islam…
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The story below must have been one of the saddest stories of 9/11. The attack on the World Trade Center in New York touched Corkman Mr John Clifford’s family in a particularly cruel way. Just hours after learning that his brother, Ronnie, who worked in the centre, had survived the disaster, Mr Clifford was told…
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9/11 they used to be just 2 numbers until that fateful day in 2001. Ever since then it has become ingrained in the human psyche as one of the days the world changed. Even now ,19 years later it is hard to fathom the events of that day. Even when it happened it was hard…
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I was struggling to come up with an appropriate title ,this is the best I could come up with. In this blog I am not looking at the obvious impact of that awful day but to the impact it had on the entertainment industry and also how we looked at different aspects of climate change.…
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On February 26, 1993, terrorists parked a rental van in a garage underneath the World Trade Center’s twin towers and lit the fuses on a massive homemade bomb stuffed inside. Six people died and more than 1,000 were injured in the subsequent explosion, which carved out a crater several stories deep and propelled smoke into…
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