The day will come when 11 September is just another date on the calendar. But that time is still some way off.
Eleven years after the horrible spectacle of the World Trade Center towers being struck by…
It’s time for the government to review our national security laws.
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More than ten years ago, the Australian public and policymakers overreacted to 9/11 and created a set of laws that went beyond what was needed to protect us against terrorism.
With the recent release…
Spy agencies in Australia have a big job, but does the job match the budget?
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In an era of evolving threats, judgment calls will continue to rely on the provision of accurate, timely intelligence. But this intelligence does not come cheap.
In order to be well-prepared and well…
Mourners at the New York 9/11 memorial on tenth anniversary of the terrorist attacks.
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This past weekend, whole sections of the United States community felt something like a duty or desire to attend sites linked with the events of 11 September 2001.
The public memory ceremonies at these…
There’s tentative evidence that for people who are extremely distressed after trauma, debriefing may actually worsen recovery.
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Apart from sensitizing us to terrorism and altering how we travel on planes, 9/11 had a marked impact on how psychologists and psychiatrists respond to disasters. The change has been for the better.
In…
United Airlines flight 175 is crashed into the south tower of the World Trade Centre on September 11 2001.
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The terrorist attacks on the United States on 11 September 2001 catapulted the world into another stage of history: the struggle between communism and capitalism, and references to the “end of history…
American public transport employs biofuels instead of petrol .
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“We are fortunate to be alive at this moment in history. Never before has our nation enjoyed, at once, so much prosperity and social progress with so little internal crisis and so few external threats…
Mourners will gather on the site of the Twin Towers to remember 9/11 victims today.
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Ten years ago today, on September 11th 2001, al-Qaida terrorists flew planes into the World Trade Center in New York and the Pentagon in Washington. Passengers on a fourth jet overpowered hijackers, bringing…
The father of Nael Abu Hlayel, who blew himself up in Israel in 2002, holds up pictures of his son.
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Ten years ago, nineteen young Muslims commandeered passenger jets and killed themselves, taking with them 2973 people to the inferno of fire. Since the 9/11 attacks, suicide bombings have become a staple…
The Cronulla riots saw ugly attacks on people of “Middle Eastern appearance”.
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It’s about that moment; if you’re old enough it’s the indelible memory of JFK being shot. As a teenager I was listening to the car radio when I heard.
For Gen X it’s 9/11, the midnight phonecalls, the…
The American government tends not to assassinate enemies.
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The western liberal’s capacity for self-flagellation is seemingly endless. There is no enemy that the liberal west did not create. There is no inhumanity that the west did not begin. There is no crime…
Under the rule of law bin Laden should have been captured.
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In the extensive debate about the killing of Osama bin Laden there has been very little discussion of the legal (and possibly moral) aspects of the US operation. This is especially true in the United States…
Osama bin Laden masterminded the 9/11 attacks, but his death won’t mean an end to the terror threat.
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The US military’s assassination of Osama bin Laden in North Pakistan is an important landmark in the “war on terror”. As the leader of al Qaeda he was the primary target of the military campaign to defeat…
Conspiracy theories are a constant of life.
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Osama bin Laden is dead. Or is he?
The newly-deceased Saudi militant was long a central figure for the world’s conspiracy theorists. He was actually a CIA agent said some. He really died of kidney failure…
The news of the operation against Osama bin Laden was news to the authorities in Pakistan, as well as the rest of the world.
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The killing of Osama bin Laden by US forces on Pakistani soil has come at a time when relations between the two countries have been rather strained. Analysts point out that al-Qaida today is a diffuse…
US forces “eased” bin Laden’s body into the Arabian Sea.
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Osama bin Laden has long been a focus for conspiracy theorists with many claiming that he did not in fact play a role in the 9/11 attacks on the United States. That catastrophe was, so the theory goes…
President Obama announces the death of Osama bin Laden.
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History will record that Osama bin Laden was killed by American forces during Barack Obama’s presidency only days after he was forced to release his birth certificate to prove his eligibility in office…
President Obama announcing bin Laden’s death earlier today.
Osama bin Laden, the leader of global militant network al-Qaeda, has been killed in Pakistan by a small team of U.S. operatives, U.S. President Barack Obama said on Monday.
Experts comment on the significance…
People celebrate the news of Osama bin Laden’s death in New York City.
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The dancing and jubilation in the streets of Washington and New York over the death of Osama bin Laden conveys two important realities about the hunt for this terrorist figurehead: firstly that his demise…
More Australian troops are dying in Afghanistan than at any time since the 2001 invasion.
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When Barack Obama received the Nobel Peace Prize in 2009 he offered some reflections on just war theory and sought to justify, partly in its light, the war he inherited in Afghanistan.
He did not apply…
