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Courtroom drawing shows Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, centre, and co-defendant Walid Bin Attash, left, attending a pre-trial session at Guantanamo Bay Naval Base in 2008.

Plea deal for 9/11 attack suspects revoked, death penalty back on table

US Defence Secretary Lloyd Austin has revoked a plea agreement for the accused mastermind of the September 11 attacks and two other defendants.

  • Ellen Knickmeyer

September 2021

Conspiracy theorists say George W. Bush knew that this was coming.

September 11 lies just won’t go away

Large numbers of Americans believe the US government was behind 9/11. But the conspiracy theories also ebb and flow with party-political trends.

  • David Byler and Kate Woodsome
Karen Andrews: “Sporting arenas, shopping malls, airports and other iconic locations will once more need to contend with the spectre of terrorism.”

Minister urges public to guard against ‘complacency’ over terrorism

Home Affairs Minister Karen Andrews flags the need for new powers on monitoring terrorists post-jail as well as de-radicalisation programs for right-wing extremists.

  • Andrew Tillett
From left, former president Barack Obama, Michelle Obama, President Joe Biden, Jill Biden and former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg attend the 9/11 commemoration ceremony.

New York marks 9/11 in a celebration of resilience

Bagpipes echoed across Manhattan as dozens of ceremonies took place to commemorate the 20th anniversary of the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, in a celebration of America’s “resilience and unity”.

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  • Matthew Cranston

September 11 took Washington’s eye off the Beijing ball

America was diverted from thinking seriously about China’s rise by the 9/11 attacks. And Australia luxuriated in the belief it might never have to choose between the two.

  • James Curran
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The gloves are off as tensions over Taiwan escalate. From left, Xi Jinping, Tsai Ing-wen, Yoshihide Suga, Joe Biden and Scott Morrison.

After Afghanistan, Americans seek a realist strategy to contain China

The foreign policy thinkers who predicted the failure of intervention in the Middle East are now split between doves and hawks on Washington confronting Beijing over Taiwan.

  • Ross Douthat
President Joe Biden and first lady Jill Biden at a wreath-laying ceremony at the Pentagon to commemorate the September 11 attacks.

In 9/11 commemorations, an elegy for what the nation lost that day

The services across America reflected on decades of personal grief, as well as the trauma of military defeat and squandered unity.

  • Shayna Jacobs, Christine Spolar and Griff Witte
Australia’s major banks are dealing with the legacy of the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks.

In Australia, banks bore the brunt of 9/11

The September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks affected some businesses profoundly and others not at all. The sectors most affected were aviation and banking, with the latter suffering longer-term consequences.

  • Tony Boyd
An awful shuddering moment in history happened 20 years ago.

Post-9/11 world brings its own challenges

America won the war to contain Islamist terrorism. Now it must manage peaceful coexistence with China.

  • The AFR View
Peter Tinley in Kandahar, Afghanistan, during Australian special forces’ deployment after the September 11 attacks.

How Australia’s elite special forces became pathfinders in Afghanistan

Solider-turned-politician Peter Tinley drew up war plans for the SAS to participate in the war on terror.

  • Andrew Tillett
The World Trade Center was hit by two planes on September 11, 2001.

September 11 attacks reverberate 20 years on

The attacks defined US foreign policy and the two-term presidency of George W. Bush - and reshaped the world, Australia included. 

  • Phillip Coorey

What it was like to be on the ground in New York on 9/11

Looking back, what strikes the Financial Review’s then New York correspondent was how little people knew on the day.

  • Pamela Williams
Donald Trump on a visit to the Ain Asad airbase in Iraq, in December 2018.

‘A big fat mistake’: the wars that helped Donald Trump rise to power

The ‘Forever Wars’ against terrorism that the US embarked on after 9/11 produced many orphans – and one of them was the Republican Party of old.

  • Jacob Greber
Members of the Indonesian police anti-terror unit Special Detachment 88 move into positions as they prepare for a raid.

South-east Asia fears what Taliban victory will bring

National and international policing since the 2002 Bali bombings has come a long way, but hundreds of terrorists are thought to be still active in the region.

  • Emma Connors and Natalia Santi
September 11, 2001 marked the beginning of the age of conspiracy theory.

How 9/11 transformed the security services

Since the September 11 terror attacks, police and spy agencies have been given new resources and powers to keep Australians safe, but critics say they could go too far.

  • Andrew Tillett
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America has a history of returning to a unified embrace.

America can find unity in 9/11 scars

There seems to be a straight line between September 11 and the polarisation of Donald Trump. But American history revolves around conflict, compromise and repair.

  • Lydia Khalil

For Muslim identity, 9/11 is a transition point in history

Le Monde famously declared “We are all Americans” shortly after the terrorist attacks, but, for Muslim immigrants to the West, the world split in two.

  • Tanveer Ahmed
One World Trade Centre towers above the lower Manhattan skyline.

New York delivers a September 11 property miracle

The residential population of downtown Manhattan has doubled since 9/11 and the office property market has charged back to be one of the most sought-after in the city.

  • Matthew Cranston
Lloyd Austin: “The whole community is kind of watching to see what happens and whether or not al-Qaeda has the ability to regenerate in Afghanistan.”

Pentagon chief: al-Qaeda may seek comeback in Afghanistan

Lloyd Austin says the US military is capable of containing al-Qaeda or any other extremist threat to the US emanating from Afghanistan.

  • Robert Burns
Virginia Buckingham at the airport memorial. “It still feels surreal in a way because it was just horrifying beyond anyone’s ability to grasp.”

Subdued 9/11 remembrances reflect Boston’s invisible scars

A glass cube at Logan International Airport pays tribute to those lost aboard the two jetliners that took off from Boston and were hijacked by terrorists who flew them into the World Trade Centre towers.

  • William Kole

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