Twenty five years ago, al-Qaeda militants hijacked four commercial planes in the US and flew two into the World Trade Center in New York and one into the Pentagon, while the fourth crashed in a Pennsylvania field.
Almost 3,000 people were killed on that day and the world was changed forever.
How the US responded to that attack on home soil reverberates still – through everything from airport security to geopolitics – and above all, America’s place in the world. The attack also prompted a rise in Islamophobia.
Denis Staunton, Irish Times correspondent and author of the daily Global Briefing newsletter, explores how the world changed after 9/11 and what might have happened if the US had responded to the attacks in a different way.
Jeffrey Donaldson sentenced to 15 years in prison for rape and child sex assaults
Waterford family ‘murdered by gang in arson attack over €20,000 drug debt’, son says
Patrick O’Donovan remains in intensive care after taking ill on Tuesday
Union leader warns of ‘long and difficult dispute’ if breakthrough on pay not made
Presented by Bernice Harrison. Produced by Declan Conlon.
