The age of Big Brother and famous football victories seems like another time. But did the terrorists’ planes, as it seemed, really come out of nowhere?There is always an eeriness in the archives of days that immediately precede tragedy. The newspapers …
‘Panic made us vulnerable’: how 9/11 made the US surveillance state – and the Americans who fought back
It took Edward Snowden and other whistleblowers to reveal the staggering extent of the government’s spying on its own people as institutional checks failedOn the morning of 11 September 2001, an 18-year-old was driving his white Honda Civic on the way …
Joe Biden tells FBI to release files on 9/11 investigation – and possible Saudi links
• Order responds to call by victims’ families suing Riyadh• Full record to be released over six months after reviewJoe Biden has announced the wholesale review and declassification of files from the investigation into the 9/11 attack, in response to in…
‘A horn blew when human remains were found’: Wim Wenders’ six hours in the hell of Ground Zero
After 9/11 the director felt haunted by the twin towers attack. As his epic photographs of Ground Zero go on show for the atrocity’s anniversary, he remembers the horrors of that day – and considers its legacyAs a boy growing up in the rubble and ruins…
I watched the bombs fall to unleash the 9/11 wars. Two decades later, they grind on | Jason Burke
Listening to Joe Biden’s words as the US left Afghanistan was to hear echoes of George W Bush from 2001. Is this a crisis destined to repeat itself?Many who heard President Biden’s pledge to exact revenge for the killing of 13 US Marines in an Islamic …
‘Is this justice?’: why Sudan is facing a multibillion-dollar bill for 9/11
The families of some 9/11 victims are still pursuing compensation from those complicit in the attacks – but is Sudan, already ravaged by years of US sanctions, really the right target?Five months after the terrorist strikes by al-Qaida on 11 September …
Declassify Saudi files or stay away from 9/11 memorials, families tell Biden
Families say documents will show Saudi government support‘There is simply no reason to keep this information secret’Family members of victims of the September 11 terrorist attacks are opposing Joe Biden’s participation in memorial events next month unl…