The study is part of a larger project. Other studies in the collaboration estimated that the conflicts have killed over , people and displaced 37 million more. One of her friends lost her mother that day. For now, the commemorations continue, despite the pandemic. Search Search. Home United States U. Africa 54 - November 12, VOA Africa Listen live. Yes but it didnt colapse untill 56 minutes after it was hit. Shall all the people who risked their lives, never be forgotten.
Post a comment. Cancel reply Your email address will not be published. Submit Comment. Related Stories. Shared from Bostonia. March 3, It will take a generation. The twin towers collapsed oceans and miles away from Afghanistan — at that time a country that looked like a graveyard, whose people were still suffering from war, discrimination and humiliation. In , a small battery-run radio was the only means of communication in most of the country. Many Afghans felt that the US attack may mark the beginning of the end of the horror we were experiencing.
Many felt good may come from what the United States had experienced, not because they are sadistic, or take pleasure in the death of others, but simply because they thought that the world powers will only understand our suffering if they experience it themselves. Hundreds and thousands of Afghan once again had to flee their homes, as they feared being hit by US bombs. As terrorists and all who collaborated with them were targeted, the fear of B52 war planes persuaded many warlord commanders to shave or shorten their beards and dress like democrats in black suits — but as we have subsequently seen, many of them remained the same on the inside.
First bombs and then political settlements followed the events. In Bonn, Germany, most of the active Afghan actors gathered to agree on power sharing and the only two groups who felt unrepresented there later became the ones who cause most of the troubles. Ten years on, it would be unrealistic to ignore the tremendous level of progress that Afghanistan has made thanks partly to the international community and partly to the determination of Afghans themselves, who chose to work rebuilding and recreating Afghanistan again.
From paved roads to girls going to school, to historical record-breaking media development, there have been positive developments. However, the war — never the choice of the Afghan people — has done great harm to our people for all sorts of different local, national, regional and international reasons.
Widespread corruption, the massive arming of militias, the fuelling of war by neighbouring countries, the civilian losses and night raids and deterioration of security have all undermined our children's education, out women's ability to work, our ability to provide basic social services to the neediest part of population.
Overwhelming dependency on foreign aid is still a challenge for Afghan people who would like to make their country stand on its own feet and live life peacefully. Within an hour of the second plane striking the twin towers in New York I was filing a piece for the Guardian. What I wrote was widely criticised at the time by kneejerk, laptop warriors because, while placing the blame for the atrocity squarely on the Bin Laden-inspired Salafists who turned out indeed to be the culprits , I argued that the planes didn't come out of a clear blue sky but emerged from the swamp of hatred the west had sown over many years.
I drew attention to our double standards and the injustice we had perpetrated and facilitated throughout the Muslim world. I identified — in the article, and in a speech a few days later when the House was recalled — our role in the Palestinian catastrophe and the propping up of the dictators who ruled almost all of the Muslim world as being the twin reasons that some enraged Muslims were being drawn to Bin Laden.
I argued that for as long as Muslim blood and freedoms were regarded more cheaply and more dispensable than the west's own wellbeing we would face a deepening confrontation with the near 2 billion-strong Muslim world.
And we have. I underestimated the extent to which our own people would rise up against the failure of western policy towards the east, and also the damage that this and the subsequent militarised mendacity would do to the whole credibility of governance in countries such as our own and the United States.
Now scarcely anyone believes the state whatever it says, on terrorism, war, freedom of information, climate change, even when the governments are telling the truth. It is the final vindication of the great Claud Cockburn's famous dictum "believe nothing until it has been officially denied". George Galloway is the vice president of the Stop The War coalition. It's tempting to think that the aftermath of September 11 was felt largely Out There: in Washington, say, or Kabul.
Places like Norway. Or Britain. Hours before he began his killing spree this summer Anders Behring Breivik posted a 1,page manifesto. Cancel Send. Please select an option. Choose an option Please wait, fetching the form. Get our weekly newsletters. Make your inbox smarter. Select Newsletters. Email required Password required Remember me? Email required Sunday newsletter. Sign in with Facebook Google Microsoft Twitter.
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