Al-Qaeda

Former US president George W. Bush was entering the eighth month of his first term when Al-Qaeda launched the attack that killed thousands of Americans.

The families of those murdered on September 11 deserve to know what the US government knows about the worst terrorist attack in the nation’s history.

Twenty-five years after the Durban Conference, there is a tidal wave of antisemitic attacks; 25 years after 9/11, Christian communities are being targeted no less than the Jews.

Although al-Qaeda’s senior leadership is marginalized and its capability and intent to conduct external operations remain unclear, the organization has survived through adaptation.

According to an FBI report, the 9/11 Commission and flight attendant records, Lewin confronted Al-Qaeda hijackers in front of him but was slashed in the throat by a hijacker sitting behind him.

While al-Qaeda suffered losses and dislocation after the invasion of Afghanistan, its profile rose, and it expanded massively in the years that followed.

Now, a quarter-century after the September 11, 2001, attacks that triggered America’s global “war on terror,” US President Trump is entangled in an unpopular conflict of his own making.

Michal Lichtman, a spiritual guide who works with people on developing awareness and what she describes as their “inner light,” has proposed an international meditation to be held on Friday.

Explosions and gunfire echoed across Niamey early on Saturday, including around the military airbase and the presidency.

The early morning assault lasted for hours, reportedly involving soldiers from the localities of Ouallam, Tera, and Dosso in the southwest.