September 11, 2021
20 years after 9/11, what Islam and terrorism look like
By Michael Curtis
The 20th anniversary of 9/11, September 11, 2011, coincides in the same week with two other manifestations of Islamist terrorism: the capture of power by the Taliban in Afghanistan, the group whose objective is to create an Islamic State, and the opening of the trial of Islamist terrorists in the 19th-century Palais de Justice in Paris, a venue to accommodate the large numbers of people interested. The events are reminders, like others, such as the July 7, 2005 coordinated suicide attacks in London that targeted commuter traveling on the transport system; train bombing in Madrid in 2004; Christmas day 2020 in Berlin; and in Vienna November 2020, that the democratic West is involved in a global struggle to defeat Islamist extremism and terrorism.
The echoes of the events of 9/11 still reverberate. The terror of that day and the smoke pouring from the Twin Towers in NYC after they were hit are unforgettable. The nineteen terrorists had smuggled box-cutters and knives through security at three east coast airports. As a result, an American Airlines plane and a United Airlines plane , each with five hijackers, crashed into the World Trade Center in New York City. An American Airlines plane crashed into the Pentagon, killing more than 125 military personnel and civilians inside the building and 64 people aboard the plane. A United plane, possibly intended for the White House or the U.S. Capitol, in which passengers heroically resisted the hijacking, crashed in a field in Shanksville in rural west Pennsylvania, killing all 44 aboard. Only six people in the WTC towers survived, and almost 10,000 involved in the attack were treated for injuries. The overall calculation of the attacks is that 2,977 innocent people were killed along with the nineteen hijackers.
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