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The Man Who Runs Al-Qaeda
Recovered documents portray Ayman al-Zawahiri, Osama bin Laden's replacement, as diligent and more involved than we might have thought
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Recovered documents portray Ayman al-Zawahiri, Osama bin Laden's replacement, as diligent and more involved than we might have thought
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Homeland Security has no plans to scale back some of the security measures put into place after 9/11
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In the timeline of the hijackers' movements in the months before the attacks, New Mexico-born Awlaki and his followers seem to turn up nearly every step of the way
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Television ably conveyed the two biggest breaking-news stories in recent memory. Could Twitter withstand news of that size?
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The people who attacked America on 9/11 were suicidal and soulless, but they were still human. Ten years later, we should no longer fear them or deny them their rights as criminals.
In April of 2001, scientists and animators at the Goddard Space Flight Center drew on data from numerous spacecraft to create this continuous super zoom that begins with the Twin Towers in Manhattan and ends framing the Earth.
Coalition for Queens and Das Racist
At a high school near Ground Zero, the attacks sent the student body president and vice-president on very different life paths
Steven Heller
Of the many icons created after 9/11, those makeshift memorials and haunting "missing" flyers were the most devastatingly sad
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The war against al-Qaeda is over, but continuing to fight terrorism will require understanding what we did that worked - and what didn't
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Their ability to land large-scale attacks like that of September 11 might be eroded, but the group has another strategy: using our strengths against us
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Washington is just beginning to grasp the implications of a world system in which small, ambiguous groups can alter the course of history
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Photos from the days leading up to the attacks show how much the world changed on September 11, 2001
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The the national security state is the biggest threat to American liberty, but the tea party is blind to the danger -- and so's the Obama left
Michael Keller
In an age of 24-hour news coverage, personal memories can get lost in the noise. It's Mary Marshall Clark's job to turn off the TV and listen.
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The former British spy chief says al-Qaeda's attack should have been considered a crime, not an act of war
David H. Freedman on smartphone apps and the perfected self, Mark Bowden on being in the dumb kids' class, James Parker on Glenn Beck, Isaac Chotiner on P. G. Wodehouse, and more
