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  • We Remember 9/11.   (source)
  • In the States, Timur goes by "Tim." He changed his name after 9/11 and claims that he has nearly doubled his business since.   (source)
  • Following 9/11, the government was intercepting and crunching enormous data fields—civilian e-mail, cell phone, fax, text, Web sites—sniffing for keywords associated with terrorist communications.   (source)
  • Other than 9/11, there were no real "events" in my life to recall.   (source)
  • You couldn't get right up to the site, so we stood near a firehouse, where a man started talking to us about 9/11.   (source)
  • After 9/11 it was a blur, but I remember Adam saying that he was going to be fighting for us, for our way of life.   (source)
  • In the aftermath of 9/11, the United States tried to address terrorism concerns in Pakistan by transferring $10 billion in helicopters, guns, and military and economic support; in that same period, the United States became steadily more unpopular in Pakistan, the Musharraf government less stable and extremists more popular.   (source)
  • Trick-or-treat seems to end earlier and earlier every year. I think that started with 9/11.   (source)
  • Besides my Cadillac cap, I had another favorite—a cap from a New York fire company that had lost some of its men during 9/11.†   (source)
  • I could tell it was him because of the bright red New York City fireman's patch he'd worn since 9/11.†   (source)
  • Because many of Feldman's customers are affiliated with national security, there may have been a patriotic element to this 9/11 Effect.†   (source)
  • These guys had a serious job to do, ecspecially after 9/11," Mortenson says, pronouncing the word the way he does.†   (source)
  • Al-Qahtani eventually told them that Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, the planner of the September 11 attacks, sent him to the United States.†   (source)
  • The horrific events of 9/11 tempted me to think that interning people without due process might be the thing to do.†   (source)
  • He had been sent to New York after 9/11, set up shop in Texas after hailstorms pelted the state, and was now in Florida helping Allstate deal with a massive outbreak of residential mold claims.†   (source)
  • You're no different from the 9/11 maggots.†   (source)
  • Then 9/11 came along, and Abby just about lost her mind with worry.†   (source)
  • 9/11 national security sprawl, occupied several acres of land adjacent to the giant highway interchange.†   (source)
  • The president compared the storm to 9/11 and the War on Terror.   (source)
  • We did not realize then that 9/11 would change our world too, and would bring war into our valley.   (source)
  • I remember 9/11, the day the terrorists flew planes into the Twin Towers, killing all those people.   (source)
  • Certainly after 9/11 it was more fraught than before, and then it had calmed for a few years.   (source)
  • Then 9/11 had made this militancy more mainstream.   (source)
  • After 9/11, we've tightened things up here.   (source)
  • The flight attendant took notice, and by the time we hit Colorado, I was making regular visits to the cockpit (this was before 9/11), where the pilot gave me brief lessons in flying an airplane and updated me on our progress.   (source)
  • A thought occurred to him: that ticker tape hadn't existed until 9/11-until people were so scared that they needed to know, without any delay, the facts of the world they inhabited.   (source)
  • Here's a small sample of emails or messages I've seen from friends or family: From right-wing radio talker Alex Jones on the ten-year anniversary of 9/11, a documentary about the "unanswered question" of the terrorist attacks, suggesting that the U.S. government played a role in the massacre of its own people.   (source)
  • Part of going back to normal meant erasing the boundaries of what was abnormal, and within a few months, the way Alex had felt on 9/11 was slowly forgotten, like a tide washing out a message she'd once scrawled on the sand.   (source)
  • Life was a series of ifs-a very different outcome if you'd only played the lottery last night; if you had picked a different college; if you had invested in stocks instead of bonds; if you had not been taking your kindergartner to his first day of school the morning of 9/11.   (source)
  • Khalid Sheikh Mohammad, the mastermind of 9/11, was found in a house just a mile from the army chief's official residence in Rawalpindi.   (source)
  • After 9/11, he and Kathy knew that many imaginations had run amok, that the introduction of the idea of "sleeper cells"—groups of would-be terrorists living in the U.S. and waiting, for years or decades, to strike—meant that everyone at their mosque, or the entire mosque itself, might be waiting for instructions from their presumed leaders in the hills of Afghanistan or Pakistan.   (source)
  • It was why these schools, post-9/11, had teachers wearing ID all the time and doors locked during the day-the enemy was always supposed to be an outsider, not the kid who was sitting right next to you.   (source)
  • There was really only one subject-9/11.   (source)
  • Before Abbottabad he'd been in Haripur and before that hidden away in our own Swat Valley, where he met Khalid Sheikh Mohammad, the mastermind of 9/11.   (source)
  • Just as the Russian invasion of Afghanistan had changed everything for General Zia, so 9/11 transformed General Musharraf from an international outcast.   (source)
  • These clerics said 9/11 was revenge on the Americans for what they had been doing to other people around the world, but they ignored the fact that the people in the World Trade Center were innocent and had nothing to do with American policy and that the Holy Quran clearly says it is wrong to kill.   (source)
  • Those rights were the foundation of America four hundred years ago, and they're still the foundation today. ... It's why, even after 9/11, religious freedom flourishes in America.   (source)
  • After 9/11, the Arab and Muslim communities segregated themselves because of the level of suspicion directed at them from others.   (source)
  • Qassam el-Banna had named his son after Mohamed Atta, the operational leader of the 9/11 plot.†   (source)
  • The American intelligence community, the largest and most advanced the world had ever known, had failed to prevent the attacks of 9/11.†   (source)
  • It reminded her of the scenes in Washington after 9/11, the tens of thousands of people who had simply left their offices in the world's most powerful city and started walking.†   (source)
  • Many years earlier, not long after 9/11, she had revealed the existence of a chain of secret CIA detention centers—the so-called black sites—where al —Qaeda terrorists were subjected to harsh interrogations.†   (source)
  • He seemed not to notice the three Israeli intelligence operatives sitting in the parked Buick Regal across the street from the house owned by an Egyptian jihadi who had slipped through the cracks of America's vast post-9/11 security structure.†   (source)
  • After 9/11, he decided to devote himself to helping the country.†   (source)
  • They may not have been the precise same guys who planned 9/11.†   (source)
  • My brother had joined the Marines a little before 9/11.†   (source)
  • After 9/11 we realized that our country's openness was also its vulnerability.†   (source)
  • "Back then, before 9/11, beheading foreigners wasn't in fashion," Mortenson says.†   (source)
  • Especially if they're planning a second 9/11.†   (source)
  • Soon after 9/11, Oscar sought out Major Goins.†   (source)
  • This was 2007, and 9/11 was six years behind us.†   (source)
  • That it'll make a lot of people forget 9/11.†   (source)
  • Blaming all Muslims for the horror of 9/11, Mortenson argued, is "causing innocent people to panic.†   (source)
  • For a brief period after 9/11, Carter's kingdom had been known as the National Clandestine Service.†   (source)
  • I was there on 9/11, and little did I realize the massive impact those terrible events in New York City would have on my own life.†   (source)
  • After 9/11, SEALs began training to deal with the places Islamic terrorists were most likely to be located—Afghanistan number one, and then the Middle East and Africa.†   (source)
  • Some of the guys who had been in Afghanistan said it was just about a direct replica of the camp the United States destroyed after 9/11.†   (source)
  • We were both there on 9/11.†   (source)
  • If I ever rounded a mountainside in Afghanistan and came face to face with Osama bin Laden, the man who masterminded the vicious, unprovoked attack on my country, killing 2,752 innocent American civilians in New York on 9/11, I'd shoot him dead, in cold blood.†   (source)
  • Those mountains up in the northeast, the western end of the mighty range of the Hindu Kush, were the very same mountains where the Taliban had sheltered the lunatics of al Qaeda, shielded the crazed followers of Osama bin Laden while they plotted the attacks on the World Trade Center in New York on 9/11.†   (source)
  • "During peacetime, pre-9/11, it wasn't a popular decision to join the military to protect your country," says Mark Kramer, "so my decision was sort of validated that day.†   (source)
  • The week of Christmas produces a 2 percent drop in payment rates—again, a 15 percent increase in theft, an effect on the same magnitude, in reverse, as that of 9/11.†   (source)
  • In fact, I was getting used to being proud of Adam instead of worrying about him, but 9/11 changed all that, and there I was worrying about him again, worried that he was going to war.†   (source)
  • And around the globe, we worked with our friends and allies to capture or kill scores of al Qaeda terrorists, including several who were a part of the 9/11 plot," Obama said.†   (source)
  • Concerns about terrorism after the 9/11 attacks triggered interest in these issues in an unlikely constituency: the military and counterterrorism agencies.†   (source)
  • Women are eager to date military men, policemen, and firemen (possibly the result of a 9/11 Effect, like the higher payments to Paul Feldman's bagel business), along with lawyers and doctors; they generally avoid men with manufacturing jobs.†   (source)
  • Still, after the events of 9/11, I returned to the Unitarian Church, the same denomination in which I was active when I was sixteen.†   (source)
  • "These guys are so good at what they do," says an officer who oversaw Adam's squadron, "because they have an op almost every night, sometimes more in a single night than guys did in their whole careers pre-9/11.†   (source)
  • " Suicide bombers have often written about their expectations of being rewarded by the houri, and Muhammad Atta reassured his fellow hijackers on the eve of 9/11: "The houri are calling you.†   (source)
  • The response was so overwhelmingly positive that it salved the wounds of the death threats he'd received soon after 9/11.†   (source)
  • I know that holding such beliefs and speaking them publicly is not always easy or comfortable or popular, particularly in the post—9/11 world.†   (source)
  • "After Greg's kidnapping, and after 9/11, I didn't bother trying to talk Greg out of going back because I knew he'd go no matter what," Tara says.†   (source)
  • That's what all the outstations, forward operating bases (FOBs), command outposts (COPs), and observation posts represented: footholds in the uphill battle being waged in Afghanistan seven years after 9/11.†   (source)
  • Initially the response from students and parents was polite but cautious, but then the attacks of 9/11 took place, and suddenly the community was passionately concerned with the larger world and engaged in this project.†   (source)
  • At the time, Rick was producing a documentary about a Special Forces A-team of Green Berets, ODA 574, based on my book The Only Thing Worth Dying For, which chronicles 574's mission into southern Afghanistan in the weeks after 9/11.†   (source)
  • A decade later, in the post-9/11 era, Mortenson would often be asked by Americans about the danger he faced in the region from terrorists.†   (source)
  • He likens the moment Mortenson returned to post-9/11 Pakistan, two months before Daniel Pearl's kidnapping and beheading, to New York City firefighters rushing into the wounded World Trade Center.†   (source)
  • In addition to fighting these insurgents and jihadists and providing security for the newly formed Afghan government, the U.S. military's priority mission remained the manhunt for Osama bin Laden, the architect of the September 11 attacks on American soil.†   (source)
  • "If we try to resolve terrorism with military might and nothing else," Mortenson argued to Parade's readers, "then we will be no safer than we were before 9/11.†   (source)
  • Gabriel had been a frequent guest at the house during the salad days of the Office's post-9/11 relationship with Langley.†   (source)
  • In the months after 9/11, he had locked terrorists in secret black sites, rendered them to countries that tortured, and subjected them to interrogation methods of the sort that Gabriel had just countenanced in a farmhouse in the north of France.†   (source)
  • I'm a Republican from Palm Springs and I have to tell you I learned more from you in the last hour than I have in all the briefings I've been to on Capitol Hill since 9/11.†   (source)
  • In the years following 9/11 and America's war to topple the Taliban, these remote and craggy valleys would attract bands of Taliban and their Al Qaeda benefactors, who knew how easy it could be to lose oneself in these wild heights.†   (source)
  • Sarfraz, the former Pakistani commando from Zuudkhan who had helped to protect Mortenson when the news from 9/11 arrived over his shortwave radio, had met Khan on his own less-than-legal travels in the Wakhan Corridor as a smuggler.†   (source)
  • In those charged days after 9/11, Mortenson's elderly donor, Patsy Collins, had urged him to speak out and fight for peace, just before she'd died, to make this time of national crisis his finest hour.†   (source)
  • The most active of the four groups, Ain-Al-Yaqeen reported, the International Islamic Relief Organization, which the 9/11 Commission would later accuse of directly supporting the Taliban and Al Qaeda, completed the construction of thirty-eight hundred mosques, spent $45 million on "Islamic Education," and employed six thousand teachers, many of them in Pakistan, throughout the same period.†   (source)
  • If we Americans are to learn from our mistakes, from the flailing, ineffective way we, as a nation, conducted the war on terror after the attacks of 9/11, and from the way we have failed to make our case to the great moderate mass of peace-loving people at the heart of the Muslim world, we need to listen to Greg Mortenson.†   (source)
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