All 14 Uses
9/11
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Three Cups of Tea
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- 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.†
Chpt Intr.9/11 = September 11, 2001; when suicide bombers hijacked US airliners and used them as missiles to kill about 3,000 people
- 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.†
Chpt 7
- 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.†
Chpt 7
- "Back then, before 9/11, beheading foreigners wasn't in fashion," Mortenson says.†
Chpt 13
- 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.†
Chpt 19
- Blaming all Muslims for the horror of 9/11, Mortenson argued, is "causing innocent people to panic.†
Chpt 20
- These guys had a serious job to do, ecspecially after 9/11," Mortenson says, pronouncing the word the way he does.†
Chpt 20
- 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.†
Chpt 20
- 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.†
Chpt 21
- 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.†
Chpt 21
- "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.†
Chpt 22
- The response was so overwhelmingly positive that it salved the wounds of the death threats he'd received soon after 9/11.†
Chpt 22 *
- "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.†
Chpt 22
- 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.†
Chpt 23
Definitions:
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(9/11) the terrorist attacks on the United States on September 11, 2001, when hijacked passenger planes were flown into the World Trade Center and the Pentagon, killing nearly 3,000 peopleOn September 11, 2001, 19 terrorists from the group al-Qaeda hijacked four U.S. passenger airplanes. Two were crashed into the twin towers of the World Trade Center in New York City, causing both towers to collapse. A third plane hit the Pentagon. The fourth plane, crashed into a field in Pennsylvania after passengers fought back. Almost 3,000 people were killed, most of them civilians and first responders. The attacks led to major changes in U.S. security policies and to long wars in Afghanistan and Iraq.
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(2)
(meaning too rare to warrant focus) Much less commonly, 9/11 can refer to any September 11th.