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For most of us, memories of the catastrophe of September 11, 2001 consist of images of airliners crashing into giant skyscrapers, of flames and smoke shooting from them, and of thousands of terrified people fleeing from the area as those great structures crumpled into themselves amid roiling clouds of smoke and ash. But the events of that day cannot be reduced to those images; for they resulted in thousands of individual tragedies whose consequences continue to reverberate in the lives of those most immediately affected and in the lives of thousands more throughout the world.
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Recounted in Gail Sheehy, Middletown America: One Town’s Passage from Trauma to Hope (New York: Random House, 2003), pp. 5ff.
Richard Falk, The Great Terror War (Brooklyn, New York: Olive Branch Press, 2003), p. 33.
A series of coordinated attacks in 1971 was said to be so severe that they were compared to the blitz in Belfast in 1941. Richard Clutterbuck, Protest and the Urban Guerrilla (London: Cassell, 1973), p. 132.
T. Harry Williams et al., A History of the United States (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1959), p. 248. The US Marines, whose hymn begins, ‘From the halls of Montezuma to the shores of Tripoli,’ played a major part in ridding the world — at least temporarily — of the plague of Middle Eastern piracy/terrorism.
Cited in Daniel Benjamin and Steven Simon, The Age of Sacred Terror: Radical Islam’s War against America (New York: Random House, 2003), pp. 16f.
Abdullah Yusuf Ali, The Holy Qur’an: Text, Translation and Commentary (New York: Tahrike Tarsile Qur’an, Inc., 1987), 46:21–6, 22:1, cited in Benjamin and Simon, The Age of Sacred Terror, pp. 92f.
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Leiser, B.M. (2004). The Catastrophe of September 11 and its Aftermath. In: Primoratz, I. (eds) Terrorism. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230204546_14
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