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The terrorist attacks of 9/11 briefly disrupted celebrations of a world globalised by capital and consumption.


Pankaj Mishra

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HENRY CRUMPTON That a terrorist linked to the 9/11 attacks has now been convicted is proof that Germany is fighting...
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ZACARIAS MOUSSAOUI Conservatives saw the savagery of 9/11 in the attacks and prepared for war; liberals saw the savager...
KARL ROVE Typically, terrorist attacks produce a rally-around-the flag effect as was the case after 9/11 and t...
PETER BERGEN The planes were hijacked, the buildings fell, and thousands of lives were lost nearly a thousand mil...
TOM HARKIN Conservatives saw the savagery of 9/11 in the attacks and prepared for war; liberals saw the savager...
KARL ROVE There are numerous images of the World Trade Center attacks in these ads and that is already drawing...
HOWARD KURTZ We cannot explicitly link the recent terrorist attacks to the September 11 hijackers,
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DAVID STERN If the United States had maintained its spending under Ronald Reagan, it is possible that the attack...
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BILL HARLOW There was no silver bullet that could have prevented the 9/11 attacks.
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JUAN WILLIAMS China's overall crude oil consumption is about 8% or 9% of world consumption and per capita consumpt...
ZHENG JINGPING The blame for the 9/11 attacks lays squarely and exclusively with the Al-Qaeda network.
KAY GRANGER Since 9/11, the U.S. Consulate is the number one terrorist target in the city.
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GIL KLEIMAN Since its enactment in the weeks following the September 11 terrorist attacks, the tools in the Patr...
JIM GERLACH You know, like every country in the world, Russia is a target of terrorist attacks and unfortunately...
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BRENT SCOWCROFT When we talk about 9/11 and 26/11 - which is the shorthand for the Mumbai attacks in 2008 - we'r...
KARAN MAHAJAN Yesterday NPR fired me for telling the truth. The truth is that I worry when I am getting on an airp...
JUAN WILLIAMS Recognize the mindset of this country and our leaders in this country that we got hit on 9/11, 2001,...
GEORGE ALLEN As the world's financial capital and the site of the recent terrorist attacks, there could be no bet...
KLAUS SCHWAB The terrorist action of 9/11 gave birth to President Obama's entry to the White House. Not direc...
MAYA ANGELOU The world became a better place to live in after 11/9 [1989 - fall of Berlin wall] because each outb...
THOMAS FRIEDMAN After 9/11, the SBA was doing all it could to help small businesses, not only in the areas directly ...
HECTOR BARRETO That's all it would take to prevent the 9/11 attacks from happening? I don't think so.
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ALAN GREENSPAN There is no evidence to indicate that the FAA recognized Flight 77 as a hijacking until it crashed i...
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ANN PATCHETT We live in a world where terror has become a too familiar part of our vocabulary. The terror of 9/11...
TOM BROKAW The universally praised independent, bipartisan commission established in the aftermath of the 9/11 ...
TOM ALLEN The Sept. 11 commission's statement that it does not believe a secret military intelligence unit dis...
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HECTOR BARRETO The attacks of 9/11 came out of Afghanistan. It was a failed state, a rogue nation. That's why a...
SEBASTIAN JUNGER Obesity is the terror within. Unless we do something about it, the magnitude of the dilemma will dwa...
RICHARD CARMONA Trump, of course, has been very wrong in the past about important issues such as President Barack Ob...
PETER L. BERGEN The wrongful arrest of tens of thousands of British Muslims after the September 11 attacks can be ex...
GEOFF MULGAN There is the suspicion that the accused had contacts with two Islamic extremist circles, especially ...
KAY NEHM One of the criticisms in the 9/11 Commission's report is [that] agencies failed to connect the dots ...
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LORD LEVENE Islamic fundamentalists could never have toppled Saddam Hussein by themselves. Instead they enraged ...
YUVAL NOAH HARARI The Europeans must finally understand the incredible shock triggered by the attacks of September 11.
BRENT SCOWCROFT Private-sector preparedness is not a luxury; it is a cost of doing business in the post-9/11 world. ...
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DAVID LEVITHAN We're not falling to the ground in an instant like the towers did, but it's like the most important ...
WENDY MILLS These arrests have seriously disrupted the activities of a group allegedly making arrangements to ca...
CHRISTINE NIXON This resolution is further proof that Congress stands firmly behind our troops and remains resolved ...
JOHN DOOLITTLE I understand why people are frightened, but at the same time we don't want our lives to be totally d...
LARRY KING My time as editor has been overlapped by a crisis - a prolonged, labyrinthine, tragic, seemingly non...
DAVID REMNICK Most novelists I know went through a period of intense self-examination and self-loathing after the ...
JAY MCINERNEY Terrorist attacks should be combated,
YASSER ARAFAT We are gathered for what is officially a groundbreaking, but the truth is that this hallowed ground ...
NORMAN MINETA The special reverence that al Qaeda had for Sheikh Rahman was underlined by a two-hour propaganda vi...
PETER BERGEN In a post-9/11 world, diversity has become even more important.
JANE HARMAN Senator Clinton is showing that she is more interested in political attacks than substantive dialogu...
DANNY DIAZ We feared lots of attacks, lots of sabotage, lots of terrorist activities,
HAMID KARZAI Standing out there in th dark, I felt many different things. One of them was pride in my fellow Amer...
JOHN GROGAN When I first seriously decided to become a cartoonist would have been '99/2000, right before 9/1...
JEFF LEMIRE The documentary feature film 'Legion of Brothers' tells the stories of the handful of U.S. S...
PETER BERGEN You don't want to pretend that 9/11 ended in 2002 with the first anniversary. So how do you fram...
JAKE BARTON Like the attack on Pearl Harbor, another hinge event in American history, 9/11 was a great tactical ...
PETER L. BERGEN Since the 9/11 terrorist attacks the U.S. government has invoked national security and abused execut...
JAMIL DAKWAR I think in the wake of 9/11, like a lot of Americans, you know, we were all very traumatized by the ...
AMY WALDMAN Hijacking before 9/11 and hijacking after 9/11 mean two very different things.
CONDOLEEZZA RICE We've only recently turned the corner on the Sept. 11 attacks being blamed on Jews and Israelis, as ...
ABRAHAM FOXMAN Go to the internet and go to the FBI website and go to their international list of top ten terrorist...
JESSE VENTURA No day shall erase you from the memory of time
VIRGIL Well I won't back down
No I won't back down
You can stand me up at the gates of hell
...
TOM PETTY 10. Both the North Tower and the South Tower collapsed just as their respective fires were dying dow...
DAVID RAY GRIFFIN Tonight, there are even more warnings of possible terrorist attacks in America-
TOM BROKAW When Congress passed the Authorization for the Use of Military Force immediately after the 9/11 atta...
PETER L. BERGEN The first heroes of 9/11 were here.
BRIAN ROHRBAUGH Outside events can change a presidential campaign, a president, and the history of the nation: the I...
MARK MCKINNON One terrorist attack or two terrorist attacks are not going to sway them.
RAANAN GISSIN More than a decade and half after 9/11, U.S. military actions in countries such as Syria, Iraq and A...
PETER BERGEN Picture what this country felt like in the weeks and months after 9/11. Can you imagine anyone even ...
MIKE GALLAGHER Every lethal terrorist attack in the United States since 9/11 has been carried out by an American ci...
PETER L. BERGEN But through world wars and a Great Depression, through painful social upheaval and a Cold War, and n...
NICK RAHALL Deeply saddened by the news of the terrorist attacks in central London, the Holy Father offers his f...
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KENNETH CHENAULT After 9/11, the amount of applicants the FBI received increased exponentially. Whereas you used to r...
AARON TVEIT The tragedy of 9-11 weighed heavily on him.
LANNY BREUER How many more attacks? When's the next terrorist activity?
BRIAN BELSKI You must save what you can of your life; you musn't lose it all simply because you've lost a part.
HENRY JAMES Doing this is a way of adding unpredictability to the screening process in order to deter terrorist ...
JENNIFER PEPPIN We didn't do anything to provoke the attack of 9/11. We were attacked by the terrorists, and we've r...
DICK CHENEY Protecting our homeland from terrorist attacks and natural disasters must be the first priority of o...
CHET EDWARDS specific directions for terrorist attacks continue to be issued from terrorist groups based in Syria...
JOHN NEGROPONTE I will never make a movie about any of the events of 9/11.
STEVEN SPIELBERG Each man lives in his own universe and when he dies the world is over
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PAWAN MISHRA I will first see the background that led to him saying what he did tonight.
KALRAJ MISHRA Kasturi was in the seventh month of gestating Coinman—a high-attention and high-priority stage of ...
PAWAN MISHRA A true love is never defeated.
Even when in ashes,
it whirls and finds solace with air
SANDEEP KUMAR MISHRA